(7/25/2025)

The North American section has advanced its intervention within major proletarian economic organizations through leadership positions, strategic resolution campaigns, and coordinated contract alignment work. Earlier this year Party militants within the Class Struggle Action Network, a workers coordination, moved forward a campaign to put immigrant worker solidarity resolutions forward in unions across the country in order to move unions out of narrow parochial self-interest and on the field of class solidarity.

In the International Association of Machinists, a sympathizer has moved into key leadership roles, enabling immigrant worker defense resolutions and proposals for a coordinated May Day 2028 strike to gain traction at the district and territorial level. The Immigrant Worker Defense Resolution has already passed in the American Postal Workers Union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers locals in Richmond and Portland, Service Employees International Union, and the Teamsters, with further organizing underway across fifteen additional unions. Through putting forward these principled lines of action as official proposals at union local meetings and regional assemblies militants have been able to put forward class unionist principles and effectively confront opportunist leadership who would rather ignore the issue in the name of business unionism as usual.

In the Industrial Workers of the World, militants have been working with class unionist elements building rank-and-file support through active committee participation and coalition work with baristas and service workers.

Within the Southern Workers Assembly, over 300 workers participated in a recent Action Summit. Party militants were present and widely distributed Party and class struggle materials in addition to promoting our immigrant worker defense positions. This connection provides access to decision-making across a network of more than thirty worker assemblies in at least six states comprising membership from much larger number of unions.

In Illinois, work focuses on winning support among newly expanded graduate student unions to join the 2028 strike effort, using official surveys, endorsements, and union communications to agitate for participation. The Chicago Teachers Union’s existing alignment for 2028 provides a strategic opening to build solidarity within the education sector.

Internationally, the North American union intervention working group meets monthly to coordinate this work, with plans to connect to comrades in other regions for broader study and unified strategy. Across all fronts, the priority is to turn immediate struggles and contract battles into a foundation for mass, coordinated actions rooted in the material needs of the working class, ultimately advancing the fight for the reforging of the class union.