The next visitor submit was written for Every day Kos by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Academics. Every day Kos has not endorsed a candidate on this election.
If the primary days of the second Trump administration are any indication, it’s sadly clear that he’ll spend the subsequent 4 years specializing in his grievances and serving to the billionaires who bankrolled his marketing campaign, not addressing the wants of hardworking People.
Donald Trump is already elevating prescription drug costs, repealing clean-energy initiatives labored by union labor, halting federal support, proposing drastic cuts to authorities safety-net packages, and scaring each mum or dad and baby with the risk to deport kids from colleges.
And whereas some questions stay about what tipped the citizens in Trump’s favor, one factor is abundantly clear: The Democratic Occasion has a lot to do if it needs working individuals to see it as their champion.
We want a frontrunner who will put working individuals and their households on the middle of the whole lot we do. When Democratic Nationwide Committee members collect in Maryland’s Nationwide Harbor this weekend to vote for a brand new chair, the selection couldn’t be clearer. Ben Wikler is the candidate who will work hand in hand with the labor motion within the battle for working individuals.
It’s the rationale why I—alongside my fellow labor leaders at AFSCME, the Worldwide Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, NEA, SEIU, and Unite Right here—have endorsed Ben.
Ben has a transparent imaginative and prescient for a way the Democratic Occasion can work along with labor to construct employee energy and broaden the get together’s base to win on the problems that the majority have an effect on working individuals. In his platform, Ben has dedicated to creating certain that labor has a seat on the desk in terms of hiring, messaging and technique. He acknowledges that we are able to’t be pro-worker on the similar time that we settle for donations from companies busting the unions that make us sturdy. That’s why he has dedicated to rejecting distributors who work with union-busters and donations from companies which are busting unions.
Ben is a talented organizer, fundraiser and communicator who understands the necessity to carry up working-class points, arrange year-round and attain all corners and other people of this nation.
Beneath his management, as chair of the Democratic Occasion of Wisconsin, WisDems selected to speculate file sources in a state Supreme Courtroom race in 2023 that turned a conservative court docket progressive. The court docket has since struck down gerrymandered maps, serving to Democrats flip 14 state legislative seats this 12 months.
In Wisconsin, Ben established a imaginative and prescient and executed on it. He says he’ll produce 57 state methods because the DNC chair. I imagine him.
The threats to working of us’ aspirations are clear as day. The query is: Who can lead the Democratic Occasion in each combating these threats and advancing a program that helps make actual the American dream that our children and grandkids could have a greater life?
And now, I converse to DNC members specifically: I’ve been a Democrat my complete life. It’s a time for brand new management and new power. The established order can final not, and dealing individuals are relying on the DNC to make the choice that places working individuals first. Meaning electing Ben Wikler as our subsequent DNC chair.
