Challenging Union Decisions About Politics Takes Rank-And-File Action

Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen.

Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real.

This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters. That venerable bait-and-switch routine reached its 21st century apex in the form of Donald Trump’s successful faux populist campaigns for the White House in 2016 and 2024. Post-election, his first and now...