{"id":1037574,"date":"2024-07-25T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037574"},"modified":"2024-07-25T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:08:00","slug":"unions-leaders-slam-trump-and-vance-for-being-scabs-while-pandering-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/unions-leaders-slam-trump-and-vance-for-being-scabs-while-pandering-to-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions Leaders Slam Trump and Vance For Being \u2018Scabs\u2019 While Pandering to Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, the DNC hosted a press call featuring top union leaders to hold Donald Trump and JD Vance accountable for their anti-worker policies and previewing what a second Trump term would mean for workers\u2019 rights. The call featured Congressman Chris Deluzio <\/strong>(D-PA), SEIU President April Verrett<\/strong>, RWDSU President and Executive Vice President of UFCW Stuart Appelbaum<\/strong>, Arizona Democratic Party Chair Yolanda Bejarano<\/strong> and Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber<\/strong> who called out Trump and Vance for masquerading as pro-worker while supporting policies that are anti-worker and anti-union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Trump and Vance continue to pander to workers while supporting policies that are anti-worker, their Project 2025 agenda will crush unions, rip up labor protections, and rig the economy for their billionaire friends. This November, workers know that Trump and Vance are pandering to them and will unify against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s some contrast here though, folks. A Trump-Vance administration \u2013 my goodness, I think working Americans would suffer a heck of a lot,\u201d said<\/strong> Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17)<\/strong>. \u201cWe already know what Donald Trump\u2019s economic record is: big tax cuts and handouts for billionaires and big corporations that exploded the debt. I mean this is the fiscal irresponsibility I see in Congress all the time \u2013 that fiscal insanity that we\u2019ve seen from congressional Republicans who want to attack Social Security \u2013 it doesn\u2019t make sense. They slashed the corporate tax rates and they did what we see corporations do. They went on a massive stock buyback spending spree, given huge bonuses to executives, and nothing for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo much of the tax benefit from the Trump tax cuts went to big, powerful corporations and billionaires and so many others. We saw seven billionaires take a $535 million tax deduction in a single year. We saw the Trump administration change overtime rules, making it harder for eight million workers who became ineligible. It costs them [workers] over a billion dollars a year in lost wages, and we know they\u2019ve packed the courts with anti-worker, anti-union judges. And that administration sat by while workers in warehouses and meatpacking plants suffered and died in the pandemic, in the early days, under then-president Trump. And we know what a Trump-Vance administration would be \u2013 it\u2019s more of that trickle down economic fairytale that has never worked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDonald Trump and JD Vance are determined to turn back the clock on workers\u2019 rights. And I\u2019m talking about collective bargaining, yes, but I\u2019m also talking about women\u2019s rights – the right to our bodily autonomy,\u201d said<\/strong> April Verrett, SEIU President<\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019m talking about our civil rights \u2013 our ability to participate in democracy. Live in a democracy. As one of the most racially diverse unions in the world, we know our mission to better the lives of workers extends far beyond the boundaries of the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all know too well the harm that Donald Trump will do to working people if he gets his hands back on the reins of power. Because of him, billionaires paid [lower tax rates] than working families for the first time in our history,\u201d said<\/strong> April Verrett, SEIU President.<\/strong> \u201cTrump tries to claim he supports \u2018Black jobs.\u2019 But let\u2019s be clear, the reality is that he left communities of color behind. His tax scam worsened the racial wealth gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTrump and his MAGA Republican party are no friends to working people and organized labor. They are by and for the billionaires,\u201d said<\/strong> Stuart Appelbaum, RWDSU President and Executive Vice President of UFCW<\/strong>. \u201cTrump is once again saying the quiet part out loud as he attempts to sell out our country to the highest bidder. Trump\u2019s top concern will always be tax handouts and special favors for his wealthy donors at the expense of hard working Americans. That\u2019s why working people will reject Donald Trump\u2019s extreme, bankrupt agenda once and for all this November.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cVance can talk all he wants about supporting workers, but when it has actually come time to act, he\u2019s put the C-suite first every time. Donald Trump and JD Vance want to crush unions and rip away workers rights because they are in the pockets of billionaires \u2013 in Vance\u2019s case, it\u2019s ultra right-wing Silicon Valley tech billionaires like Peter Thiel,\u201d said<\/strong> Ron Bieber, Michigan AFL-CIO President<\/strong>. \u201cMichigan has defeated Ohioans before and Michigan families know that Trump and Vance will roll back all of the victories that the Biden-Harris administration have achieved for workers. Under their leadership, Michigan has seen the creation of thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars in new investments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs a former field director of the Communications Workers Of America, I know firsthand how important unions are to building the middle class and I know what happens when those rights are stripped away,\u201d said<\/strong> Yolanda Bejarano, Arizona Democratic Party Chair<\/strong>. \u201cTrump and Vance are working hand in hand with their billionaire friends to rip away workers rights, jeopardize workers\u2019 safety and lower wages for everyone just so the ultra-rich can continue to get richer. Arizona is a worker battleground and this November we are ready to move our state forward by electing pro-worker Democrats up and down the ticket. Don\u2019t be fooled by Vance and Trump, they are bad for unions, bad for workers, bad for the economy and bad for Arizonans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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