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Nearly 20 years after they parted ways, two major unions announced that they\u2019re reuniting just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Service Employees International Union said Wednesday it is re-joining the AFL-CIO, a group comprising 60 affiliated labor unions. With the addition of SEIU, its membership will expand to 15 million workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second Trump administration, which begins in less than two weeks, is expected to take a decidedly different view of labor unions compared with the Biden administration. The leaders of the AFL-CIO and SEIU, however, said the decision to unite was not political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The notion that this is political couldn’t be further from the truth in terms of the election results,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the union leaders said they are prepared to defend workers as Trump enters office. Both unions had endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, arguing that Trump\u2019s agenda would be \u201cdevastating\u201d and \u201canti-worker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do not have rose-colored glasses on about the threats that could be coming our way,\u201d SEIU International President April Verrett said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shuler said the unions will tap into their organizing power to respond to threats with a \u201creally robust defense\u201d while also going on the offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are the, probably, only institution in the country that has an infrastructure in every city, in every state, in every workplace, that is a mobilizing machine,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd as they say, outside power builds inside power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 2 million SEIU members work in hospitals, schools, law enforcement and other settings. The AFL-CIO\u2019s affiliated unions include the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of Teachers and the United Auto Workers. Union members are employed across the country at a variety of large companies, including General Motors, Disney and the U.S. Postal Service. (Many NBC News employees are affiliated with the AFL-CIO through the NewsGuild, part of Communications Workers of America.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shuler and Verrett said conversations about joining forces had been ongoing for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a key moment, of course, it\u2019s a strong signal, but it\u2019s something that\u2019s been building and something we think is going to really be for the long term,\u201d Shuler said, noting that she has been working with SEIU to increase collaboration since she started her presidency in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verrett said the SEIU board gave permission in June 2023 for the union to have more formal conversations with the AFL-CIO about joining the affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement brings SEIU into \u201cpart of the broader federation in decision making about priorities,\u201d said Ken Jacobs, a senior policy adviser at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He referred to the first Trump administration as being \u201cextremely hostile to labor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think this is also a pretty clear reflection of recognition of how important labor unity is going to be in this next four years, when we have a Trump administration that we can expect to be hostile to the interests of working people,\u201d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has promised to bring back jobs that had gone overseas, as well as revitalize the auto industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Trump allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-heads of the new nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, have proposed large-scale employment changes for government workers in the coming Trump administration, prompting backlash from unions. Trump has criticized the United Auto Workers, and numerous unions endorsed Harris last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Trump’s efforts to win over union workers proved effective in getting one major union, the Teamsters, to decline to endorse a presidential candidate after years of supporting Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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