We are union members fighting back against Trump’s attacks on our immigrant brothers and sisters. Our unions need to lead the way as we face down this billionaire bigot administration and we’re calling on our union leaders to step up in the fight against Trump’s deportation machine.

When NYC taxi drivers struck in 2017, Trump’s “Muslim Ban” was defeated. When TSA agents stayed home and Sara Nelson so much as threatened a general strike in 2019, Trump was forced to end the longest government shutdown in US history. Workers and unions have power—now’s the time to use it.

We need to talk to our coworkers about why attacks on immigrant workers make our unions weaker, and form deportation defense committees in every workplace to keep ICE out. We need to say loud and clear: stop the raids, drop the charges on SEIU-USSW president David Huerta, and get the National Guard and Marines off our streets!

We need:

• Energetic union contingents at all upcoming anti-ICE protests!

• Mass meetings of union AND non-union workers and community members to plan out strategy and next steps!

• A national one-day strike in solidarity with LA protests and against deportations!

Share this petition within your workplace and union! Join us for a national Union Members Against ICE organizing meeting Sunday June 22nd at 4pm EST. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/w17Mab22QMGwDtWnEtHCAg#/registration

This petition was initiated by (all in personal capacity):

• Ryan Timlin - ATU Local 1005, Steward, President 2017-2023, Bus driver
• Adam Burch - ATU Local 1005, Bus driver
• Ian Rivero - Amazon Teamsters at KCVG Air Hub, Ramp worker
• Ian Cooper-Smith - SEIU Local 99, Paraprofessional
• Micaela Foreman - Co-President GEO Local 6297, Graduate student
• Gabe Berry - United Federation of Teachers, Delegate, Middle education special education teacher
• Toya Chester - IBEW Local 103, Inside wireman
• Hannah Fitzgerald - LiUNA Local 1058, Sign painter
• Bessam Idani - SEIU-32BJ, Allied Universal
• Talia Paone - AFSCME Local 2459, Civil engineer
• Ari Kobler - Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, Teacher
• Joel David Cardenas Diaz - IATSE Local 2, AV tech
• Philip Snyder - Teamsters Local 406, Package handler (22.3)
• Roshan Hatley - Wesleyan Dining Workers United / UNITE HERE 217, Bon Appétit Wesleyan
• Fiona Cavanagh - Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
• Ryan Watson - IBEW Local 134, Low voltage electrician
• Robert Hemp - Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association Local 5, Teacher
• Hannah Boroff - Temple University Hospital Nurses Association, Registered nurse