This resolution was passed at the January 2025 Quarterly Membership Meeting via Zoom on January 19, 2025.
Resolution: Labor Party
Submitted by Jerry Goldberg
Resolution for UAWD to join in building broad working class coalition to confront Trump and rule of Billionaires, and to support United Electrical Workers Union call for organizing a Labor Party, independent of the Republicans and Democrats
Whereas: The Trump election, his appointment of a cabinet of billionaires, and his defacto annointing of union buster Elon Musk as chief advisor assigned to restructure the federal government by eliminating any social safety network for poor and working people, signals a war on the working class;
Whereas: The Trump election means a war on immigrant workers, denial of climate change, elimination of all regulation protecting the health and safety of workers on the job, intensification of racism and LGBTQ bigotry, and a blatant attempt to divide US workers against their fellow workers internationally in the name of increased profits for the US billionaire class;
Whereas: As Bernie Sanders stated with regard to Trump’s election, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Whereas: As UAW president Shawn Fain stated with regard to the Trump election, “It’s time for Washington, DC to put up or shut up, no matter the party, no matter the candidate. Will our government stand with the working class, or keep doing the bidding of the billionaires? That’s the question we face today. And that’s the question we’ll face tomorrow. The answer lies with us.”;
Whereas: Workers at Amazon and Starbucks, as well as longshore workers represented by the ILWU, have all gone on strike since the November election, and the UAW Stellantis Keep the Promise Campaign continues;
Whereas: Teaching assistants on college campuses represented by the UAW face a threat to their union status by Trump’s restructuring of the NLRB;
Whereas: Protests continue against the ongoing genocide in Gaza;
Whereas: The fightback against the Trump and the billionaire’s war on the working class is reflected by unified demonstrations across the US on January 20, Inauguration Day and the birthday of Martin Luther King;
Whereas: The United Electrical Workers Union has issued the following statement calling for the formation of a Labor Party, independent of the Republicans and Democrats: “Working people need an independent political organization to fight for our interests against the corrupt two-party system, and we call upon our locals and members, the rest of the labor movement, and our allies in other social movements to get serious about building a true political alternative, a labor party that can unite and speak for the working class.”
Be it Resolved:
Unite All Workers for Democracy urges it members and chapters across the US to join and solidarize with actions to confront Trump and the billionaire class, and to build a fightback movement with our union siblings across the US and worldwide, along with immigrant workers, unorganized workers, poor people facing cuts in social programs, LGBTQ people and all those facing increased racism and bigotry;
Be it Further Resolved:
Unite All Workers for Democracy supports the call of the United Electrical Workers Union for building a Labor Party, independent of the Republicans and Democrats, to truly confront the billionaire class and unite and speak for the working class.