Unions in somber mood for Labor Day 2025
Thousands of workers and union organizers from all over California will be gathered for a picnic and a walk this weekend to honor the contributions of the working people of the country.
However, the celebrations of the Labor Day will be sober with a reality: trade unions faced the pressure of the members of the Trump administration from the immigrant raids of the immigrant raids and medicaid services and the pressure of pressure to protect them from a weak national working relations committee.
Lorena Gonzalez, President of the California Labor Federation, said, “We know how important we’re to protect and protect democracy,” he said. “We have a special role in this regard. We will not silence and we will not be paralyzed.”
From farm fields to car wash, labor groups tried to support the families of hundreds of chaotic and violent raids that resulted in a large number of chaotic and severe raids (one -day workers and a farm worker), resulting in the death of two people while fleeing federal agents.
The raids echoed in the local work community of the state in June, when David Huerta from Seıu California documented the first major immigration raids in Los Angeles in Los Angeles.
“Farm workers are afraid …. They do not know what will happen since one day to another, but they understand that the only way to come together,” Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers, said.
Romero and other trade union leaders said they focused on regulating more workplaces, but they are also trying to educate people on their rights and organize legal and non -violent protests against government policies.
“We are all in the attack of the Federal government, Jerek said Jeremy Goldberg, General Manager of Central Coast Labor Council. “Need is enormous.”
At the beginning of August, Trump Management He progressed with a plan To end collective bargaining with federal unions in a field of state institutions. The government said that the changes are necessary to protect national security, but that the unions see this as retaliation to participate in the lawsuits opposing the President’s policies.
Trump Management RECOMMENDED SWEAR CUTTINGIn order to improve the working conditions of private employees, he canceled the leases for the personnel of the National Labor Relations Board assigned to protect the right to unionization or organize in other ways and for regional offices in many states.
Union officials claim that the changes can prevent the board of directors and prevent them from investigating unfair labor practice accusations and prevent them from fulfilling their other responsibilities such as supervising elections.
“Important rules and regulations that help workers during the Biden administration are systematically recovered, Sistep said Enrique Lopezlira, Director of the Low Wage Work Program at UC Berkeley Business Center.
Unions are preparing for more difficulties that may arise when Trump is ultimately appointed to the non -operational Federal Working Board, because there are not enough board members to judge cases.
However, although many workers’ leaders were clearly opposed the Trump administration, others adopted a quieter approach. Great national trade unions such as United Auto Workers and Teamsters supported the Trump agenda for tariffs on tariffs abroad and a pressure for home production.
The changes bring a hard time for California unions.
John Logan, a professor of labor history in the state of San Francisco, said Trump’s hostility towards California, and the withholding of federal funds from universities, health facilities and other institutions, with the lack of layoffs on public sector employees and other cost -reduction. And he said that the relentless immigrant raids of the administration consume the time, attention and resources of the unions.
Although California has a greater share of the labor force represented by trade unions compared to many other states, this intensity is overly dependent on public sector employees and that the membership of these unions is likely to shrink in the coming years.
Logan, trade unions, “this crisis is equipped to deal with the moment,” he said. “The workers’ movement is fighting for survival in the next four years.”
Difficulties are especially acute in the health sector.
The unions representing domestic care providers, nurses and other health workers, members of the members, who have already expanded their immigration and customs buyers by thousands of workers, said that Trump, which includes tax expenditures that would affect millions of Medicaid buyers, said that they felt the stuck with the “Great Beautiful Bill”.
Arnulfo de La Cruz, the President of Seıu Local 2015, said that many in -house care providers who have been looking at people for decades have been facing the possibility that the people they care about will lose their health services and lose their health services and business.
De La Cruz, “Keeping our health services under attack, keeping our families under attack – this is a great reversal of how we know the basic workers,” he said.
Large medical facilities including Sharp health services– UC SAN Diego Health And UCSF Health, In recent months, it has announced that it has been planning to interrupt public health services and make hundreds of dismissal by referring to important financial winds and federal uncertainty.
“There is nothing good about this bill,” he said, Orange County, and Afscme Local 3930 member Cynthia Williams. Williams is a sister who is both blind and cerebral palsy and a full -time caregiver for her daughter and a veteran who lives with post -violent stress disorder.
Williams, primarily financed by Medicaid, said that the in -house supporting services program provides funds as a preventive for access to the weekly appointments of his sister. The hours paid to look at Williams’s daughter have been reduced.
“The last few months would have been very stressful and very unpredictable, Willi said Williams said.
