If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.

I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the dinner table when my dad was on strike, thanking God for the Painters union (IUPAT) even when times were hard. The history of our union’s struggle is in my blood, and I’ll never take the sacrifice members before me made for granted.

But a lot of our members today are disconnected from our union, and I get why.

This certainly isn’t a problem unique to the Painters. For as long as I’ve been alive, the labor movement has been complacent, coasting by and believing our wins to be permanent and guaranteed — and that if we stay u

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