Can Organized Labor Survive a Second Trump Term?
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FEATURING ERIC BLANC - In spite of the Teamsters decision not to endorse Kamala Harris for president ahead of the 2024 presidential election, most unions backed the Democratic Party. In fact, organized labor groups poured more than $40 million into Harris’ campaign for president and are now bracing for the anti-labor presidency of Donald Trump.
But Eric Blanc, assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University says all is not lost and that there’s no stopping the surge in labor organizing in the United States.