Can Organized Labor Survive Trump鈥檚 Second Term?

Nov 22, 2024

In spite of the 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 into Harris鈥� 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, all is not lost. He believes there鈥檚 no stopping the recent surge in labor organizing in the United States. Blanc blogs at and is the author of . He spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about how labor can survive and even thrive over the next four years.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 大象传媒 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.