Posted on 06/14/2025 5:16:45 AM PDT by george76
Unions that rely on taxpayer-funded dues to keep their lights on have taken prominent roles in organizing the “No Kings” protests that are scheduled to be held across the nation on Saturday — coinciding with President Donald Trump’s military parade intended to commemorate the Army’s 250th birthday.
The Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers, American Federation of Government Employees, and American Postal Workers Union — public sector unions that collectively represent millions of government employees and rely on their dues to fund operations — are listed as partners helping to plan the nearly 1,800 No Kings protests planned for Saturday. The National Treasury Employees Union, another public union, was “briefly and erroneously listed as a partner on the No Kings website,” a spokesperson for the union confirmed to the Washington Examiner after being reached about the organization’s logo appearing on the protest’s website.
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Some of the unions, such as the SEIU and AFT, have taken especially prominent roles in helping activists prepare for the demonstrations.
AFT, headed by noted labor activist Randi Weingarten, has a number of events slated to help train protesters ahead of Saturday. On Thursday night, for instance, the union is holding a webinar to teach demonstrators “de-escalation strategies and practical tools to handle challenges” to prepare them for “tough interactions with law enforcement [and] frustrated bystanders or counter-protesters.” Also on Thursday, the union is tapping its members to send out floods of text messages encouraging people to show up for the protests.
“On Saturday, folks across the country will join in peaceful, nonviolent action to affirm that in America, power belongs to the people,” Weingarten posted on X, sharing a link to information about the protests. “We’re coming together to lift up what matters most: strong public schools, thriving communities & opportunity for all.”
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By joining demonstrations against immigration enforcement and the broader Trump administration agenda, labor unions are showing their true colors — they are a pillar institution of the professional Left,” Watson said. “Short-run political expediency cannot change a pattern that has lasted for about a century and a half: Organized labor serves institutional progressivism, and institutional progressivism serves organized labor.”
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In helping to organize the mass protests, public unions are linking themselves to some of the more radical elements of the liberal coalition. Partners joining the AFT and other public unions in organizing the No Kings protest include Jewish Voice for Peace and the Organization for Black Struggle.
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This wouldn’t be the SEIU’s first foray into high-profile anti-Trump protests. The union has been involved in coordinating and mobilizing activists for the Los Angeles protests over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that have led to violent clashes with law enforcement and arson throughout the city. David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California, was arrested during the protests.
“You often find that these unions serve as a home for street agitators, the professional protesters and the ‘direct action’ trainers,”
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groups behind the chaos in Los Angeles receiving funding via government grants, highlighting another avenue through which activist groups are subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
The SEIU, AFT, AFGE, and APWU
I’m hoping more people show up for trumps parade than the protests. With trumps massive landslide presidential win and mandate, that easily should happen..
One hopes. This is Dee Cee, after all.
True. But there are cars, trains and airplanes. His parade has been scheduled for months.
I’m lovin’ it. An exercise in futility. Will that matter? These people don’t work and need something to do. It’s like a cheap date.
...and some people here DEFEND labor unions. Bottom line, if you don’t like your employer, go find a BETTER JOB - you do not have the right to stay and DESTROY your employer...or at least shouldn’t have that right.
I had dinner with some silver-haired biddies in Denton, Texas last night. They were discussing their plans to attend the protest in Denton Square and how to protect themselves from the expected police brutality.
Yes they always have a front name for such operations.
Are they transplanted Yankees or Californians or just brainwashed native Texans?
Are they transplanted Yankees or Californians or just brainwashed native Texans?
Another consequence of a printed, fiat, currency, courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
While Government bankrupts the nation and burdens citizens with unplayable debt and massive taxes, politicians have used same to create a huge, bloated, dependent political base, organized and spurred-on by marxist ideology.
The Liberals don’t like the King family?
Filthy racist bastards.
You can bet that cops all over America will be filling the streets to defend the “most peaceful” rioters, arsonists and looters and pickup up a little overtime while they are at it.
There is one parade and 1500 protests.
This must be made illegal. The use of MY (and your) tax dollars to support ANY political position should be unconstitutional.
That “map” they continue to show on FNC to promote the JoKing “mostly peaceful” riots was prepared by the JoKing clowns themselves. How accurate do you think it is?
Perhaps, while these union workers watch these people burn their cities to the ground, they will begin to wonder WHY they are still members.
An exercise in futility.
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True. The vast majority of people do not support them. In fact, this should be used as an opportunity by law enforcement to arrest the most egregious of the law-breakers, give them hard time, and remove them from the chessboard.
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