“It’s not a crime to protect our inherent treaty rights, to be a protector of water, of all those sacred elements; it’s a crime to be in collusion with a foreign company.”

“[The PRO Act] won’t solve all the issues, but at least it allows us to organize without union-busting.”

Austin City Council voted Thursday to use funds slashed from the police budget to purchase a hotel that will provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness

Trumka and others are sending a message that they’re more willing to gain from short-term benefit of police unionists’ membership in the federation than to address their harmful legacy

“There are immoral laws that on occasion you have to break in order to make it right for our society, and this is one of those times. Labor recognizes that.”

“Education has been key to part of the success of our campaign. We’re trying to educate people on every single thing that we possibly can that could happen that falls under the guise of voter suppression”

“We must work to get in climate hawks who understand that every fossil fuel permitting decision is a potential step away from 1.5 degrees.”

“I just don’t feel that police evicting people is a way to ‘protect and serve.’”

“Abolition of police in the current moment that we’re talking about, around defunding the police, does not get rid of other systems of oppression that people face”

Affiliated Labor Council May Vote to Expel Police Union