Union leaders accuse Trump administration of 'shift toward white supremacy' with online posts

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Source: The Guardian

Wed 14 Jan 2026 06.00 EST
Last modified on Wed 14 Jan 2026 06.05 EST


Union leaders have accused the Trump administration of a “rhetorical shift towards white supremacy” after social media posts by the US Department of Labor drew comparison with a Nazi slogan. Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”

Users of X, formerly Twitter, and Grok, the platform’s AI tool, highlighted a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”). “The similarity to that Nazi slogan is bad,” Christopher Hayes, a labor historian and professor at Rutgers University, told the Guardian, expressing alarm over “the motivation behind it, the message, the sentiment and desired outcome”.

Jimmy Williams Jr, general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, said the labor department had repeatedly imitated “far-right and fascist imagery” online: “When people tell you who they are, believe them.”

Puneet Maharaj, executive director of National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the US, added: “It is no surprise that a fascist regime would post fascist propaganda on a fascist social media network like X, but it remains concerning to see the DOL making posts that serve a fascist, white supremacist agenda.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/union-leaders-trump-administration-white-supremacy

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Union support for Trump in the last few years has always baffled me.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. I agree.

But Harris did better than Biden with unions. It’s a select few (sob and the notoriously right wing teamsters) who shifted right.

While Other Voters Moved Away From the Democrats, Union Members Shifted Toward Harris in 2024

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/while-other-voters-moved-away-from-the-democrats-union-members-shifted-toward-harris-in-2024/

Fact is since its inception there have always been right wing forces at the top of labor. Since the days of throwing out the socialist from the afl -cio.

[dutch777]

2. Good, and paint the whole GOP as supporting this and endorse for 2026 elections accordingly.

[catrose]

3. I disagree with the word "toward"

As the Palmolive lady said, “You’re soaking in it. “

[dalton99a]

5. +1. Well, we're only slightly leaning toward authoritarianism

[BradBo]

6. Union members helped elect Trump.

Not all but I be a majority of labor union members voted for Trump.
They will be standing in bread lines blaming Biden and still support Trump.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. "Not all but I be (sic) a majority of labor union members voted for Trump."

Nope.

According to the 2024 VoteCast survey conducted for AP and Fox News—one of the most accurate voting polls currently available—57 percent of union members voted for Harris compared with 41 percent for Trump, a 16-point margin and an improvement over the 14-point margin Biden achieved among union members...

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/while-other-voters-moved-away-from-the-democrats-union-members-shifted-toward-harris-in-2024/

[Eugene]

7. Shifting TOWARD?? His Truth Antisocial posts have gone full Klansman.

What does the 2nd President of the Confederacy have to do to make it more obvious?

[Lanius]

8. "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage."

Lol maybe they should run that slogan among the Trumpers in the South who are still fighting the Civil War.

[Cha]

10. NO Doubt!

TY to All For Calling Traitor on his Shit.