Mayday, mayday—May Day is tomorrow, and Donald Trump will be in Wisconsin.
WisDems is here to ensure the truth spreads about anti-union Trump—a fake friend of the worker. Chip in to help us reach our April goal... and read on.
Give him one thing: Trump knows that Wisconsin is the right place to commemorate May Day. We’ve always been at the front lines of the fight for unions and working people, from the Bay View Massacre in 1886 to the first comprehensive public sector union law in 1959.
Health care. Pensions. The 8-hour workday. Overtime. Weekends. If you like these things? Thank a union.
But don’t thank Trump.
Trump wants votes from union members, but he stiffs them just as surely as he stiffed his own contractors. He’ll promise the world. But North American Building Trade Unions President Sean McGarvey knows what becomes of those promises—watch:
Trump has shown time and again how little he thinks of workers. He filled the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with anti-union appointees who made it harder for smaller unions to organize.
Trump packed the Supreme Court with anti-labor justices. Thanks to his appointment of Neil Gorsuch, in 2018 the right-leaning court ruled 5-4 in a case that gutted public sector unions. At heart, Trump is a Scott Walker-esque union-buster in a baggier suit.
During 2023’s UAW strike, Trump sought UAW’s endorsement by speaking at an auto parts plant in Michigan. Too bad the plant was non-union. Non-union folks held “Autoworkers for Trump” signs. For workers, Trump talks the talk, but won’t walk the walk.
You know who DOES walk the walk, literally?
JoeBiden.
The day before Trump’s stunt, President Biden walked with striking UAW workers in Belleville, MI—the first time in history a sitting U.S. president has joined a picket line.
Over and over, President Biden shows why he’s the most pro-union president in history, reaching out to organizers at union-averse companies like Starbucks and Amazon to show his support for employees’ efforts to unionize.
President Biden signed legislation like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which juices the economy and creates more good union jobs. Just ask LiUNA, one of 30 unions endorsing Biden.
Unlike Trump, Joe Biden believes unions mean a stronger workforce. In 2021, he established a White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment to encourage more union organizing.
One year after establishing the Task Force, there was a sharp increase in membership among federal workers. The Biden Administration doesn’t pay lip service to workers’ rights.
And while Trump’s NLRB cronies tried to undo labor progress, Biden’s appointees are doing what the board was meant to do—protect and support union workers.
Like Joe Biden, Wisconsin Democrats proudly stand with workers. The fight for workers is as fierce in Wisconsin as anywhere in the nation.
In 2011, Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 stripped bargaining power from public employees. Walker and the GOP went on to pass a so-called right-to-work law smashing private sector unions as well. This century, no state has had a bigger decline in union density than Wisconsin.
Wisconsinites are fighting back. Today, the Building Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin held a press conference with the Biden-Harris campaign slamming Trump for being anti-union, anti-worker, and killing jobs in our state.
And in 2023, at long last, union membership in Wisconsin started going up. In his State of the State Address, Governor Tony Evers declared the Year of the Worker.
Governor Evers’s “Year of the Worker” agenda is a sweeping vision for investing in training, public education, child care, and family leave—all measures that lift up workers and build a brighter future.
And Tammy Baldwin saved the pensions of hard-working Wisconsinites thanks to the passage of the Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act. Wisconsin Dems are walking the walk, and it’s changing lives.
Trump wants to bamboozle Wisconsin workers about his agenda.
WisDems—a proud union shop!—is fighting back. We want every worker to know who’s on their side, and who isn’t.
We need your help. Chip in any amount.
Between now and November 5, Trump will keep coming back to Wisconsin to spread his MAGA lies.
He’ll reach out to Wisconsin workers, beg for their vote by promising them everything… and then, once he’s in office, deliver nothing.
Wisconsin has about 205,000 union members. Trump’s margin of victory in 2016 here was 22,748. In 2020, Biden won by 20,682. Union members can decide Wisconsin. And Wisconsin can decide this whole national election.
Unions will be doing all they can to inform and mobilize their members. Your help can ensure that WisDems can do the same. This election is a jump ball—and with your help, we’ll scale up our organizing and comms work and ensure truth defeats lies.
We know how hard you work to keep the benefits you earned. We’ll work twice as hard to make sure we elect Dems who will protect those benefits. And to make sure every worker knows who has their back.
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