The wishlist for radical, anti-worker conservatives has been clear for years. Groups like the National Right to Work Foundation and Koch-funded State Policy Network affiliates have employed a legislative and legal strategy to peel back key union rights, especially targeting public sector labor. They have been relentless—and successful. Even when they do not win immediately, they continue to bring bill after bill and case after case until they accomplish their goals.

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The same evening the Martin Luther King County Labor Council expelled the Seattle Police Officers Guild, the Troy Area Labor Council (TALC) unanimously passed a resolution calling on the AFL-CIO Executive Council to immediately suspend the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) pending an investigation. The Resolution was written in solidarity with justice for George Floyd, the movement for Black lives, and our own members who have suffered at the hands of the police.

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If the leadership of the AFL-CIO is too afraid to listen, then we must take our demands to the grassroots. To this end, we have created a list of the 50 largest police departments in the United States, their union affiliation, and their regional central labor council affiliation. Although few of the largest police unions are affiliated to the AFL-CIO, the regional voices of labor in America’s largest cities should take a long, hard look at local law enforcement, and make plain what side they are on.

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On Monday, four of the most powerful union leaders in the country revealed their analysis of the pandemic and what it means for organized labor. "Coronavirus is a stress test for capitalism," the headline read. "We see encouraging signs."

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COVID-19 brings into stark relief the inequalities in our society and in our economy, and how many workers live a heartbeat from disaster. The fact that some elites have tested positive for the virus should not distract from the disproportionate impact felt by working families. In the richest society in human history, we’re faced with the spectacle of workers forced to clock in during a pandemic for fear of losing their homes.

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Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner. There is no question that he is a son of the working class. There is no question he is the most pro-worker candidate in the field. And there is no question that if elected, Bernie Sanders would be the most pro-worker president to ever serve in the White House. So why is labor still undecided?

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But for the first time in decades, we can start a new one with a different reality: one where there seems to be the possibility of winning, rather than just stanching the bleeding. Workers are fighting back, and we have to press the advantage. Doing so requires deliberate choices.

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Today, myself and thousands of my coworkers and allies are planning protests at nearly 20 airports nationwide—on one of the busiest travel days of the year. I have traveled to North Carolina to join my union siblings at Charlotte Douglas International Airport alongside hundreds of my coworkers and community allies, with protests also taking place at major airports in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Philadelphia, and others, including my hometown hub airport of DCA. 

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Over the past year, we’ve provided a platform for freelance journalists, activists, and rank-and-file workers: one which pays, funded through the donated time and money of our editorial collective. We refuse to ask freelance journalists and activists to donate their labor: both out of a sense of justice, and because we realize that growing labor reporting requires paying labor journalists. As we mark our one year anniversary, we’re recommitting to providing a platform for the publication of labor reporting which provides fair compensation for original work.

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