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How can labor fight back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda?

By Workday Magazine · Up With the Workers · · 2 min read

Times are frightening. But organizing beats fear.

“The goal is to go from a state of fear to a state of action,” says Laura Garza, executive director of workers’ rights organization Arise Chicago, in Sarah’s new story, How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda, published in collaboration with Labor Notes. Sarah and Natascha also worked on a story with specific suggestions for contract language here.

5 picket signs reading "Fighting today for a better tomorrow" with SEIU Local 26's logo of the state of MN with worker portaits, are held up against a cloudy blue sky
SEIU Local 26 in the Twin Cities has included language in its contracts that protects workers whose documentation status comes under inquiry by employers or the government. Photo by Amie Stager.

Sarah also collaborated with The American Prospect in her latest on restrictive covenants in the building services industry: After Building Service Workers Mobilize, FTC Stops Secret No-Hire Agreements. She has been covering this incredible organizing for almost two years!

“We all have a role to play.”

Workers at the Guthrie Theater who unionized with IATSE Local 13 are headed into bargaining next week. Check out Isa’s latest story: Guthrie Theater’s Front-of-House Workers Fight for a First Contract.

Guthrie workers after a union meeting. Photo courtesy of Eva Nereson.

Healthcare workers in Deer River are holding the picket line

After publishing Minnesota Healthcare Workers in Deer River Continue Historic Strike, we learned that healthcare workers with SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa are going back to the bargaining table with their employer, Essentia Health, next week. On Wednesday they held an informational picket in Duluth, and as of today, are on day 40!

a dozen or so people stand on a snowy sidewalk wearing winter gear and holding picket signs and a purple banner that reads "on strike"
Essentia Health Deer River workers holding the picket line in the wintry conditions of northern Minnesota. Photo courtesy of SEIU Healthcare MN & Iowa.

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