Claire Valdez

Claire Valdez's career experience includes working as a union organizer. She served on the bargaining committee of United Auto Workers Local 2110 at Columbia University and was elected unit chair in 2022.[1]

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Campaign websiteValdez's campaign website stated the following:WORKERS DESERVE IT ALLClaire Valdez is an Assemblymember, union organizer and proud democratic socialist running for Congress in NY-7 to fight for the working class.Unions for AllUnions are how we build power and expand democracy. Organized workers win higher wages and stronger benefits, work in safer conditions, and exercise more control over their time and their lives. They are more secure at work, more engaged in their communities, and more likely to vote. That's exactly why oligarchs spend billions trying to crush collective bargaining—because organized workers threaten their power.In Congress, Claire will champion the PRO Act to make it easier for people to form unions, hold bosses accountable, and stop corporations from retaliating against people who demand dignity on the job. She will use her office to stand shoulder to shoulder with workers organizing across our city—on picket lines, at bargaining tables, and wherever working people are fighting for their rights. It's exactly what she has done throughout her adult life.READ CLAIRE'S FULL LABOR PLATFORMHousing for AllHousing is a human right—but Congress has chosen to side with landlords and speculators instead of working people. Claire will fight to guarantee safe, affordable housing for all, because housing is not a commodity. It's a necessity.As a tenant, Claire knows what it means to be one crisis away from losing your home. In NY-07, more than seven in ten residents rent, but the establishment has allowed displacement and skyrocketing costs to hollow out our communities. That's not inevitable—it's a political choice.Claire will be a voice for tenants in Congress and work to pass the Homes Act, championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to create a public option for housing and break the private market's stranglehold. She will fight to fully fund the New York City Housing Authority and repeal the Faircloth Amendment so we can build beautiful public housing again. Claire will take on a housing system designed to reward speculation and scarcity—and fight for a New York where working people can afford to stay.Medicare for AllWhile major health insurance corporations post obscene profits, tens of thousands of people in New York's 7th District remain uninsured—and many more are underinsured. Working people delay care, ration medication, and face financial ruin from a single hospital visit. This is not inevitable. It's the result of a system designed to put profit before patients.In Congress, Claire will sponsor Medicare for All on Day One and fight the insurance companies that profit from denying care and driving up costs. No one should lose their health care when they lose a job, and no one should have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying rent. Health care is a human right.Employer-based insurance gives bosses power over workers' lives—holding care hostage to keep wages down and trap people in jobs they can't afford to leave. Nearly half of NY-07 residents rely on employer coverage, and tens of thousands more are at risk of losing insurance because of new work and verification requirements. We will not fix this crisis with half-measures. Claire will fight to pass Medicare for All, paid for by taxing billionaires and corporations that have rigged the system, and deliver universal health care for every New Yorker.Abolish ICE and Protect ImmigrantsNew York’s 7th District is home to people from all over the world—and from every corner of this country. Roughly a third of our neighbors were born outside the United States. Many more moved here chasing work, safety, or a better life. NY-7 shows what makes New York City strong: solidarity, diversity, and change.Donald Trump wants to destroy that vision. He’s using ICE to terrorize whole cities, rip families apart, and impose a white nationalist agenda on the country. ICE doesn’t just carry out mass deportations—it has become a tool of domestic repression, used to intimidate communities and silence dissent.In Congress, Claire Valdez will fight to dismantle and abolish ICE. She will push for real immigration reform that legalizes the status of millions of immigrant Americans. Claire believes our district’s future—and our country’s—depends on protecting the dignity and rights of all working people, no matter where they were born. READ CLAIRE'S FULL IMMIGRATION PLATFORMInternational Solidarity, Not War and GenocideFor decades, we have been sold a lie: that the U.S. empire defends freedom, advances democracy, and protects human rights. We've been told that wars abroad keep us safe at home. In reality, the bipartisan war machine has delivered immense suffering around the world while doing little to improve the lives of working people here or abroad. The military-industrial complex doesn't just enrich arms manufacturers – it has become our de facto industrial policy, sustaining enough jobs and political constituencies to make endless war challenging to stop. And working people pay the price: in lives, disrupted global supply chains, higher energy prices, and a world made less stable every time we strike first.The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran put this failed logic on full display. In the opening hours of the illegal bombing campaign, a U.S. strike hit an elementary school in Minab, killing roughly 170 children. Even if the temporary ceasefire holds, 40 days of destruction have already killed hundreds of civilians, destabilized the entire region, and produced the worst global supply disruption since the 1970s oil crisis. Iran is just the latest chapter. Trump invaded Venezuela and kidnapped a sitting head of state. He cut off Cuba's oil supply, plunging the island into blackouts and driving it toward collapse. Like Joe Biden before him, Trump sent billions to fund genocide in Palestine. The through-line is the same: reckless force, ordinary people suffering, and a ruling class that never pays the bill. Claire will fight to end it.READ CLAIRE'S FULL FOREIGN POLICY PLATFORMTransit for AllFor more than half a century, federal transportation policy has been written by and for the auto industry. Working people in cities got the bill: poisoned air, gutted neighborhoods, and a mass transit system starved of funding while highways ate the budget. In NY-7, 79% of commuters get to work by transit, foot, or bike — and that's true for the majority of the working class across New York City. But federal dollars still flow overwhelmingly to roads, funding a car-centered system most people here don't use and can't afford.Car culture didn't just reshape our roads. It reshaped our neighborhoods. The postwar push toward cars and suburbs was also an assault on the shared spaces — the sidewalks, the subways, the stoops — where urban, working-class, multiracial life was built. The BQE didn't just bring noise and pollution to North Brooklyn and western Queens. It was designed to divide. These weren't engineering decisions. They were political ones.Claire will fight to redirect federal dollars toward public transportation, walking, and biking, and to build a new mass transit system that works for everyone. She will demand that the federal government fully fund the New York City Transit Authority and the Long Island Rail Road, and that the MTA be given the resources it needs to build a modern, accessible, and affordable transit system for all New Yorkers.READ CLAIRE'S FULL TRANSPORTATION PLATFORMA Livable Planet for AllA livable planet starts with livable homes, clean air, safe jobs, and secure communities right here in NY-7. Climate change isn’t a distant threat. It’s already raising our energy bills, flooding our waterfronts, worsening asthma, and making our apartments dangerously hot in the summer.NY-7 isn’t just on the frontlines of the climate crisis; it’s been on the receiving end of fossil fuel pollution for generations. Our waterfront was home to some of the first modern oil refineries and the toxic legacy is still with us today: contaminated sites, poisoned waterways, heavy truck traffic, and neighborhoods where working people breathe dirtier air so corporations can profit.Claire will fight to cut pollution and lower costs by winning a Green New Deal that puts working people in charge of our energy system. She will push to modernize and retrofit NYCHA buildings—lowering utility bills, fixing mold and leaks, and making homes safer through heat waves and storms. She will demand urgent federal resources for the cleanup of the Newtown Creek Superfund site and make polluters pay for the damage they’ve done. She will push for a moratorium on new AI data centers until we have clear rules to protect our grid and water from runaway corporate energy use. And she will fight for investments that create good union jobs and protect our neighborhoods from flooding and extreme heat.READ CLAIRE'S FULL CLIMATE PLATFORM— Claire Valdez's campaign website (May 14, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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