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One of the conservative movement's signature tactics is to weaken the institutions that pose a threat to its power. Nowhere is this more true than with respect to unions, which grow more popular year after year while holding fewer members and less clout. It's really an existential crisis. So I was pleased when our friends at Labor Notes asked us to collaborate on a symposium with labor leaders and experts [link removed], aimed at reckoning with what unions need to do during the next four years, not only to survive but to contest creeping authoritarianism and build power? 

**–David Dayen, executive editor**

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How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Under Trump 2.0? [link removed]

With an emboldened Trump in the White House for a second term, the ground has shifted dramatically for unions. The labor movement, like many institutions, is scrambling to devise strategies to build power—or even just survive—during these challenging times.

This authoritarian consolidation of power is testing unions. What can unions do to survive in the second Trump presidency? What tactics and strategies can help organize more new members and best survive an all-out assault on labor and other rights?

As a contribution to the discussion and debate that’s needed at all levels of the labor movement,

**Labor Notes** is soliciting contributions from organizers and scholars on what unions can do besides hide or try to curry favor. Our goal is to help organizers think about the moment that we’re in and reflect critically on strategies and tactics relied on over the past several years. What can unions do over the next few years that will help both stop the MAGA agenda and best position the labor movement for the future?

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