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Posted on 08/17/2026 6:47:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Democratic Socialists of America is quietly building a network of activists to influence unions that are central to the Democratic Party.
The organization’s plan encourages young socialists to select jobs where they can either unionize or join existing unions and move them further to the Left. While most Americans are aware of DSA-backed officeholders Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani, the strategy of placing members in unions may actually yield more important dividends to the organization’s long-term goals.
The Rank-and-File Strategy
From 2018 to 2021, the Young Democratic Socialists of America adopted a “rank-and-file” strategy as a national priority, emphasizing that “socialists must enter the labor movement on the shop floor as rank and file members of labor unions.”
The goal, as the group explained it, was “to reconnect the labor movement to the socialist movement in order to strengthen the militancy and class consciousness of the multiracial, multigendered working class to fight capitalism.”
“We aim to turn the unions we join into strong, militant, democratic organizations that can win major gains for workers, by workers,” the rank-and-file project’s website stated.
Why infiltrate the unions? To leverage them for the Left’s omni cause, the group explicitly stated.
“We want to forge real alliances between unions and other social movements, like the climate justice movement, the racial justice movement, the movement for Palestine, and the movement for LGBTQ+ rights,” the website states. “And we think unions must serve a vital role in forging a political alternative to the hard-right, authoritarian Republican Party and the fake, corporate-friendly ‘progressivism’ of the Democratic Party.”
The YDSA added that it was organizing members to enter “strategic industries—such as logistics, education, and health care.”
DSA released a pamphlet titled “Why Socialists Should Become Teachers,” urging socialists to enter the teaching profession not just to make more schools
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They are more organized than Republicans.
They always are, it is the nature of tyrants and cult group think to work as a collective. Free peoples are just that, free to have individual expression and that goes against the grain of organization, not to mention a much less driven desire to force others to be what you think they should be.
The only “labor unions” they can influence are government unions - the bloated, political ones funded by taxpayers.
They’d better hurry it up with the truckers’ union -
“The California Teamsters union is suing the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to rescind regulations allowing driverless heavy-duty trucks on public roads.
The union claims the new rules pose an ‘existential threat’ to approximately 200,000 to 400,000 trucking jobs in California.”
Little known plan? Maybe if you’re Rip Van Winkle.
They want to pass laws to mandate closed shops.
That’s interesting. Just last week I was driving past the parking lot of a Ford plant near me and there were some UAW employees standing at the entrance with signs saying UAW supports Mike Rogers (for Senate) and Trump.
I know many retired UAW employees who are hard core conservatives.
No doubt about that. Why would anyone be shocked about unions either? The heads of the unions would be all in. Rank and file drones following the leadership’s calls for action. And if union membership is down so much, why the implied “power”?
Meanwhile AI driven robotics will slowly move forward and put pressure on union jobs.
I’ve always said that so-called unions were the building blocks for communists and communism. I’M STILL RIGHT!!!
Because we are for freedom and individual liberties.
That's been going on for a century. Eugene Debs was not an apparition.
Organized and Republicans should not be used in the same sentence. I am sick of the stinking republican party and their infighting, and they do nothing in Congress.
100%!
Who is financing these Communists?
......“We want to forge real alliances between unions and other social movements, like the climate justice movement, the racial justice movement, the movement for Palestine, and the movement for LGBTQ+ rights,” the website states. “And we think unions must serve a vital role in forging a political alternative to the hard-right, authoritarian Republican Party and the fake, corporate-friendly ‘progressivism’ of the Democratic Party.”..........
“Noo” Socialist radicals on the march!
Abd no parent wants “Noo” Socialist teachers in their children’s classrooms!
Organizing People who believe in Individual liberty and economic freedom is like herding cats. They always accuse republicans of tyranny because they say “No”’to collectivism.
Maybe the plan is for useful idiots in the union to seize the means of production through force since they are on the floor. This is gonna get wicked
It’s like eating an elephant one bite at a time.
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