It’s May Day — what better day for a general strike against Trump and the billionaire class?
Sara Nelson, the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, has been talking about the need for a general strike since the early days of the second Trump administration. She joined Sam Osterhout to discuss that on Lincoln Square.
“I do think that the consciousness and the recognition that mass protest is the way to do it is moving the needle a little bit and I think has actually slowed down some of the worst things,” Nelson said of No Kings and other protests. “We have to organize on mass scale so that we can actually take the share of the profits that belong to us. ... And in order to do that, in order to organize at that scale, we have to organize uphill because the labor laws are not written in the favor of workers.”
She also has a new initiative called Union Now, a national worker power and organizing fund, which she announced alongside Sen.Bernie Sanders and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Grab your poster boards and get inspired by Sara Nelson, right here on Lincoln Square.
