Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHarris joins women's voter mobilization event also featuring Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda Judd Gregg: The Kamala threat — the Californiaization of America GOP set to release controversial Biden report MORE (D-Mass.) came out in support of graduate student employees’ unionization efforts at the University of Pittsburgh as she tries to burnish her progressive credentials in a Democratic presidential primary field.

“Hello to all my friends at the University of Pittsburgh. I’ve been following your organizing campaign and your upcoming election to form a union. Your voices are important and want to see you win this one. I’m behind you 100 percent,” she said in a video posted to Twitter.

I’ve been following the @PittTweet students’ fight to unionize. Your voices are important and I want to see you win this one. pic.twitter.com/9bdlaJqliD — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 9, 2019

Pittsburgh University graduate students will vote later this month to help employees attending the university to unionize.

“[T]he Grads Together campaign at the University of Pittsburgh gathers graduate student employees who want to collectively work towards securing our benefits and a voice in decisions that shape our work as teachers and researchers in a binding contract that cannot be unilaterally changed by the university administration,” the group Grads Together says on its website.

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The group says it seeks to provide stable funding so graduate student employees can focus on teaching and research, establishing a safe system to report sexual harassment and gender discrimination, increase administration accountability and ensure graduate student employees’ voices are heard.

Warren has a long-established reputation as an economic progressive and supporter of labor movements. She’s running in a crowded presidential primary group currently fielding over a dozen candidates, of whom many are angling their appeal to the Democratic Party’s progressive flank.

Warren has counted on a litany of detailed policy positions to separate her from the pack but she has struggled to gain traction against her opponents.