The next visitor submit was written for Day by day Kos by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Academics. Day by 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 following 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 tasks labored by union labor, halting federal support, proposing drastic cuts to authorities safety-net applications, and scaring each mum or dad and baby with the menace to deport youngsters from faculties.
And whereas some questions stay about what tipped the citizens in Trump’s favor, one factor is abundantly clear: The Democratic Celebration has a lot to do if it desires working folks to see it as their champion.
We want a pacesetter who will put working folks and their households on the heart of all the things 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 folks.
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 Celebration can work along with labor to construct employee energy and develop the occasion’s base to win on the problems that the majority have an effect on working folks. In his platform, Ben has dedicated to creating positive 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 identical time that we settle for donations from firms busting the unions that make us sturdy. That’s why he has dedicated to rejecting distributors who work with union-busters and donations from firms 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.
Underneath his management, as chair of the Democratic Celebration of Wisconsin, WisDems selected to speculate file sources in a state Supreme Court docket 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 Celebration in each combating these threats and advancing a program that helps make actual the American dream that our youngsters and grandkids may have a greater life?
And now, I communicate to DNC members specifically: I’ve been a Democrat my entire life. It’s a time for brand spanking new management and new power. The established order can final not, and dealing persons are relying on the DNC to make the choice that places working folks first. Meaning electing Ben Wikler as our subsequent DNC chair.
