US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda

Photo caption: Organizers with National Nurses United, SEIU Healthcare, AFGE, CTU, About Face, and 50501 Chicago rallied at Hines VA Hospital in support of the many nurses and service workers who support veterans every day and are under threat because of DOGE and Trump’s anti-worker agenda – May 10, 2025. Photo credit: Paul Goyette via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Michael Sainato. The Guardian – December 25, 2025.

Donald Trump has staged a year of “unrelenting attacks on working people,” according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in the US. Now they’re preparing to fight back. Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, said it was gearing up to challenge the US president’s “Billionaire First” agenda in 2026 – and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans. In an interview with the Guardian, she described how the federation has pushed to restore collective bargaining rights for federal workers, and […]

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