CWA President Chris Shelton is sounding a worker’s call to arms to go to war to save the labor movement.

Chris Shelton: “We are at war. A war to save the labor movement. In a war there are no neutrals. To paraphrase the old union song, in times like these every working person must decide which side you are on.”

Shelton says labor’s history has shown that workers will always rise up after being attacked. And he urged every worker to get in the battle for democracy and worker rights.

Chris Shelton: “These are hard times for working people . As hard as I have ever seen in my entire career in the labor movement.

Corporate America smells blood. The Koch brothers smell blood. And with the Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, with Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and with that nitwit Donald Trump tweeting in the White House I can see why corporate America thinks it’s time to go in for the kill.

This attack is not just on unions or working people. It is an attack on democracy itself, at every level. The labor movement will not survive if it forgets how to fight.”