Thousands of workers and union organizers from all over California will meet with excursions and marches this week to honor the contributions of workers in the country.
But the Days of Workers’ Day will reduce a realistic fact: the unions face increasing pressure to protect their members from immigration raids in the Trump administration, discounts in medical aid services and the weakness of the weak National Labor Relations Council.
“We know how important it is to preserve and protect democracy.” “We have a special role in it. We will not be silent, and we will not feel paralyzed.”
From the farm fields to car washing, the working groups scrambled to support the families of hundreds of detainees and deport them in many chaotic and violent raids that led to the death of two people – a daily worker and farm workers – killed while fleeing federal factors.
The raids wore the local work community in the state in June when David Heareta of California was wounded and detained by law enforcement while documenting the first major raids to enforce immigration in Los Angeles.
“They are afraid of farmers … they do not know what will happen from day to day with these raids, but they understand the only way that we will get is power if we meet,” said the United farmers’ head of farmers.
Romero and other union leaders said that their focus remains on organizing more workplaces, while they are also educating people about their rights and organizing legal and background protests against government policies.
“We are all being attacked by the federal government at the present time,” said Jeremy Goldberg, Executive Director of the Central Coast Council. “The need is enormous.”
In early August, Trump Administration Forward To end the collective negotiation with federal unions through a group of government agencies. The government said that the changes were necessary to protect national security, but the unions looked at them as a revenge for their participation in lawsuits that oppose the President’s policies.
Trump administration also Casses suggestedFor the employees of the National Council for Labor Relations – in charge of protecting the right of private employees in a union or organization in other ways to improve their working conditions – and cancel lease contracts for regional offices in many states.
Union officials claim that the changes can prevent the board of directors and prevent them from investigating the charges of underestimating work of workers and implementing other responsibilities, such as overseeing elections.
“The important rules and regulations that were developed during the Biden administration were useful for workers-km that are systematically deported,” said Enrique Lopezelra, director of the low-wage work program at your California Labor Center in Berkeley.
The unions are preparing for more challenges that can arise when Trump finally determines dates for the Federal Labor Council, which cannot be operated currently, because it does not have enough members of the Board of Directors to judge the cases.
But even with many public action leaders, the Trump administration, others have taken a more audio approach. The major national unions, such as United and teams, supported the aspects of Trump’s agenda on customs duties abroad and paying manufacturing functions at home.
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John Logan, a professor of working history in the United States in San Francisco, said that Trump’s hostility towards California and withholding federal funds from universities, health care facilities and other institutions will pressure the state budget, with great implications for public sector workers in the form of workers’ layoffs and other costs. He said that the uncompromising migrant raids consume time, attention and resources for unions.
Although California has a greater share of the workforce represented by unions compared to many other states, this density depends excessively on public sector workers, and the membership of these unions is likely to shrink in the coming years.
Logan said that the unions are “not equipped to deal with this moment of the crisis.” “The labor movement is fighting for its survival over the next four years.”
The challenges are particularly sharp in the healthcare industry.
The unions representing caregivers at home, nurses and other health care workers said that their members already feel the pressure caused by the period that caused and approved “Trump Buser”, which includes discounts in tax spending that will affect millions of beneficiaries of Medicid with the cultivation of the Immigration and Customs benefit agency by thousands of workers.
The Local SEIU President of 2015, Arnolfo de la Cruz, said that many home care providers who are interested in people for decades are now facing the possibility that people who care about health care will lose health care, and that they may lose health care and functions.
“We are exposed to our health care, because our families are attacked – this is a great reflection on how we got to know the main workers,” said de la Cruz.
Main medical facilities, including Acute health carefor Uc San Diego Health and Ucsf health, In recent months, it has announced plans to reduce public health services and conduct hundreds of workers’ demobilization, noting the large financial opposite winds and uncertainty in federal financing.
Sinth Williams, a resident of Orange County and a member of AFSCME LOCL 3930, said Williams is a full -time care provider for her daughter, and she is blind, her brother, her sister, and she is one of the old warriors who live with severe post -Emiratization disorder, “She is a bad bill. There is nothing beautiful in this law.”
Williams said that the supportive services program at home-which is first providing by Medicaid-has proactively reduced funding to her weekly sister. The hours when Williams are paid to take care of her daughter.
“The past few months have been very stressful and unpredictable,” said Williams.