There’s no question that the period ahead will be very challenging. The need to build independent, fighting working class organization and power — particularly in the South — has never been greater.
In a statement released on November 6, the officers of UE shared the following on the situation confronting us:
While working people largely voted for Trump in the hope that he will improve the economy, Project 2025, the 900-page blueprint for a second Trump administration, will only worsen the economic problems working people face. One of the most dangerous political threats that the labor movement, and the working class, has faced in generations, Project 2025 proposes a variety of measures to weaken unions in the private sector, and bluntly states its objective to eliminate them completely in the public sector. It also seeks to weaken or eliminate virtually every law that protects workers, from OSHA to the minimum wage to laws against child labor.
Furthermore, we know from Trump’s first term that a Trump NLRB will seek to remove National Labor Relations Board protections from hundreds of thousands of graduate workers by classifying them as simply students, not workers, despite all of the paid labor that they provide to their universities. We also know from Trump’s history, and the rhetoric he has used throughout his campaign, that he will continue to demonize immigrants and encourage attacks on them — and we know that employers will take advantage of those attacks in order to silence immigrants who are union leaders.
Faced with these threats, the labor movement simply cannot afford to retreat into a defensive crouch as it did after the election of Republican presidents in 2001 and 2017. Our unions must be prepared not only to militantly defend workers, but also to lead a broad and militant social resistance to Trump and the Republican Congress. The policies that they will seek to enact, both legislatively and through executive branch action, will hurt everyone except the super-rich.
Get Involved: Join or build a workers assembly in your area
Organize: Talk to your coworkers, form an organizing committee, get a rank and file job in a strategic sector to organize
Donate: The many tasks ahead will require resources to expand our efforts to engage unorganized workers; support committee, network, and assembly building across the region; hold convenings and political education; and more. Please consider becoming a monthly recurring donation, or a one-time donation of any amount.
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