Major consequences: What’s your plan?
Voting day is finally here. Do you know how you’re casting your vote?
Did you vote by mail? Are you voting early? Going to the polls next Tuesday before work, on your lunch break, or when your shift ends? Making a plan to vote is a critical part of ensuring your voice is heard in this election.
We've got everything you need to help you cast your vote. This includes printing a worker-friendly election ballot, finding your polling location and information about your state’s voter registration deadlines.
Start making your voting plan now if you haven’t already. —> BetterInAUnion.org/plan
Based on our research of candidate proposals and positions, we’ve identified significant differences between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that would strongly impact unions. We’ve also got recommendations on other worker-friendly candidates up and down the ballot.
We hope that you will share this important information from the AFL-CIO—America’s largest federation of labor unions—with your co-workers, friends, family and neighbors:
- Kamala Harris stands with union members and says that America’s union workers are the best in the world. She has stood on picket lines with us even before she was vice president. Her policies have helped bring new workers into unions, saved union members’ pensions, created training programs that give young people opportunities for good union jobs and increased wages, and provided better benefits in union contracts. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is pushing proposals that big corporations want like cuts to wages, overtime pay, retirement, health and safety, and more.
- The labor chapter in Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda, written by the chief counsel of Trump’s transition team and the former head of Trump’s policy team at the Department of Labor, would eliminate public sector unions, make it illegal for companies to voluntarily recognize unions, let corporations union-bust in secret and take away unions mid-contract, eliminate the Biden–Harris rules requiring project labor agreements and Davis–Bacon prevailing wages on federally funded construction projects, and more.
If Donald Trump takes office, we’re deeply concerned about pro-corporate policies that would make it harder to win gains in our next contracts and stack the deck in favor of the CEOs.
Trump and some politicians are already thinking about how to make it more difficult for workers to join a union and put our wages, pensions, health care and retirement security at risk.
The bottom line is this—there’s a big difference between the presidential candidates on these issues and the result of this year’s election could have major consequences for our unions.
But don’t take our word for it, go to BetterInAUnion.org to do your own research on where each candidate stands on unions, wages, retirement, health care and other issues important to union members.
It’s time to cast your vote—and make your union voice heard. Get all the information you need now to go to the polls.
In Solidarity,
Team AFL-CIO
P.S. Please help spread the word. Our unions are on the line in this election. Share this update with someone who needs to know, so we don’t all have four years of bad luck—with a Trump administration that doesn’t respect workers or our unions.