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Freshly elected DNC Chair Ken Martin is promising a whole new party.
New Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Tuesday that union workers and labor leaders will be “core to my decision-making.”
Martin told The New York Times late last year that he found it “deeply alarming … that for the first time in modern history, the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor.”
“I fundamentally believe that our party is grounded in the values, principles, and aspirations of the working class,” Martin said in his Tuesday memo.
“As Trump wages his war on working families, Democrats will fiercely answer the call to my favorite old union song, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I’ll tell you what: Democrats are on the side of the worker,” he said. “We will show Americans every day that workers in fact do have more power than any billionaire.”
Unions and working class however are not necessarily the same thing.
Trump broke away union members that are more ‘working class’ but unions have been experiencing their growth by unionizing woke white-collar employees in newspapers, leftist nonprofit activist groups and the government.
There’s a big difference between representing mine workers and the Southern Poverty Law Center Union representing employees of the leftist group.
And the unions repping government employees. It’s these unions that are currently the focus of most Democrat activism as the Trump administration tries to cut back the size of government.
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) claims that their members are ‘working class’ but few actual working-class people see D.C. bureaucrats as working class. And as long as Dems are advocating for D.C. bureaucrat unions, few will see Democrats as the party of the working class.
But that’s also the current snapshot of the unionized workforce.
The percentage of union members in 2024 has decreased from 10% in 2023 to 9.9% in 2024. While the rate was 32.2% for public employees it was only 5.9% for the private sector. There are 14.3 million union members, and 1.7 million workers who were represented by a union but not members. Those employed aged 45 to 54 had the highest union membership rate, 12.6% while those 16 to 24 had the lowest rate, 4.3%.
Unions are a government sinecure. They’re not working class. They’re government class.
Excellent work Daniel !!!!!
Why do D-Bags almost always look like the two freaks in the photo above? The male looks like he’s trying not to puke up the turd he’s munching on, and the female looks like an albino gorilla in a wig and Hillary pantsuit.
And isn’t the albino gorilla on 60 Minutes, Christina Drye, a contractor for USAID and not an employee? A speech writer for the equally hideous and toxic Samantha Powers? Why, yes she is. And like Powers a “security expert?” (Snort.) No wonder US security was an utter failure for the last four years and the Taliban became better armed than most countries and has a better airport, too.
60 Minutes tried to make it’s 3 or 4 viewers believe Elon Musk fired the phony bitch from USAID, of course.
Unions always seem like a good idea.
But Unions are never a good idea.
Given that so many pro-Americans must work through a Union to get a job, I hate ragging on Union members with a broad brush.
But my experience with Unions is violence, hatred, racism, bigotry.
Again, while many – sometime most – members of Unions are good people
Real-life face-to-face contact with the people who dominate Unions
is like meeting the “Conservative” from Hollyweird central casting.
Ignorant, stupid, psychotic, drug addled, incompetent, unqualified, Dunning-Krueger, loser
spewing communist talking points and defending dangerous and discriminatory policies.
“But my experience with Unions is violence, hatred, racism, bigotry.”
Mine has largely been indolence and a sense of entitlement.
It’s similar here in Australia.
Union membership is supposedly 15% of the workforce, but if you subtract the white collar public sector membership from it it is less than 9%.
That group singing “whose side are you on?” video clip was right out of the early 60s, almost impossibly retro. Maybe they should have unearthed Pete Seeger and stuck a banjo in his desiccated hands?
The video of those tards singing abominably is featured on Newsmax and Real America’s Voice as mockery. The hosts laugh out loud at it.
Since the Dumb-O-Crats get that annoying little Pipsqueak David Hogg their really desperate to try and get as many into the Demo-Rat Party as they can
Union bureaucrats and their elitist fellowships cannot face reality and therefore have become less and less relevant to those they are supposed to serve. The faces of the unions are representative but not of the people and these well-insulated and overly-paid morons keep pumping out the same talking points following a national election that fundamentally excoriated them.
They can continue thinking that America does not include the working class as their “fly-over” attitudes are becoming like jet crashes under DEI management…incompetent to address the real problems and find 21st century solutions.
These white collar Dopeheads have gone too-far down the rabbit hole and are totally lost in this self-serving, mafia-like labyrinth.
American businesses must also learn to treat their workers as valuable with informed and reasonable solutions to employee costs relative to business operational challenges and profitability margins for which CEO’s must be accountable and not just receive outrageous salaries and bonuses regardless of business performance which regularly happens and enrages people whose merit-based raises are often quite paltry by comparison. It is this kind of white-collar greed that often propels people to seek external representation where their union dues often pay for the flip side, white-collar representatives pocketing the dollars and only doing the minimum to represent their members.
Employees often feel genuinely screwed whichever way they turn and Trump relieving unnecessary business constraints and regulations may be a win-win for both business management and employees without the union middlemen on the take.