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Union or Project 2025

We have an election in two months, where the hell are the building Trade Unions? Members and organizers should be touting their wages, benefits and seeking out new members and union shops. So far, I’m only hearing crickets. While the Trade Unions sit back, the UAW have been striking and winning big benefits for their members. Then there is the Teamsters, who have taken on the Holy Grail—Amazon, the corporation. Again, just crickets from the Trade Unions. Then there is the Minnesota State model—-we can win more together than we can on our own. So why are all unions not working together? Why are all unions not talking with each other? There are two months left until the election—an election that could conceivably be the death null of unions. If we lose this election to the GOP, Trump and Project 2025, our unions will be destroyed and we’ll be back to the days of trying to make ends meet as the GOP will cut our wages, benefits will be eliminated and there will be nothing we can do about any of this. Our workers right will be gone, in fact, we could even lose our Social Security. Trump has said he would be a dictator and Project 2025 endorses this type of government. The Trade Unions aren’t even taking a stand or showing support for others efforts to unionize. With so little time left and all we hear from the Trade Unions is crickets. Is this the way hard-hat labor is going to go down? Where is the old union fighting spirit? Are we now just Facebook warriors from our recliners? Will we even have the fight to go to the streets where we won what we enjoy today? Remember 60 days left. I think that some of our elected union leaders are afraid of coming out in support of people who support unions they think their members will vote them out of office if leadership takes a stand against the members' belief. Leaders must lead for the betterment of the union. If they fear retaliation, then perhaps they’re in the wrong line of work and not keeping their members informed. The old union bosses would not stand for that type of weak leadership. You are either union or you’re not. There is no in between. If this sounds like I am angry, well I am. It just breaks my heart when a union or a supposed-to-be-a-union member says they will vote for Trump and Project 2025. They are being selfish and vengeful at their own peril and ours.
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