Texas AFL-CIO Statement on 2024 Election Results

Nov. 7, 2024

News Release

Contacts: Rick Levy, Leonard Aguilar or Ed Sills,

(512) 477-6195; Sills cell: (512) 695-1148

Working People Resolve to Fight Back Despite Election Results

We won’t sugarcoat it: Tuesday’s results are a bitter blow to working people here in Texas and across the country and put thousands of our members and their families at risk. 

But our solidarity and resolve remains unshakeable. We will be there for each other and we will fight every step of the way for every worker in this country, no matter who sits in the Oval Office.

Most importantly, we know how to organize and fight back when anyone comes after our freedoms.

President-Elect Trump, Gov. Abbott, and their anti-worker billionaire bankrollers have made clear they plan to attack everything the labor movement has championed for decades. That they will seek to divide and distract us. But we know that divided we are weaker. We will not roll over. We will never stop fighting for ALL workers in Texas.

We will also never stop fighting to elect the leaders Texans deserve — leaders who believe that workers should have the right to organize and the right to safe, quality, family sustaining jobs, who will make sure public dollars stay in public schools, and who will fight to make healthcare a right for all Texans.  

The Texas AFL-CIO thanks all our labor-endorsed statewide, congressional, legislative, and local candidates who fought for a different vision of Texas.

Finally, we thank our affiliates, our local central bodies, our staff, union release staff, and volunteers for leaving nothing on the table and pulling out all the stops to turn out the Texas union vote. We will build on the work we did this cycle and come back stronger than ever.

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The Texas AFL-CIO is the state labor federation consisting of 240,000 affiliated union members who advocate for working people in Texas.

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