Resources

Getting Started:

• How to Outreach to Organized Labor / Working People, January 29, 2025
  • Presenters: Lawrence Abbott and Linda Gillian
• Introduction to organized labor for Move to Amend volunteers (readings and resources)
• Engaging organized labor and labor unions (Labor Caucus kick-off webinar 9/2015 - 1 hr 15 min)
• "Move to Amend Reports" podcast interview with Labor Caucus Chair Mike Ferner (9/2015)
• Slide Presentation to Labor Groups

Making the Calls:

• Labor "rap" for calls to organized labor reps

Making the Case:

• Top reasons labor supports Move to Amend
• Invitation to Collaborate with Labor
• Talking points: why organized labor and Move to Amend have shared interests
• Expand Human and Worker Rights by Abolishing Corporate Constitutional Rights
  • Full Page Handout 
  • Half Page Handout (PDF)
• Labor Organizations in Support of MTA
• Corporate Attacks on Working People and Our Communities program with Afifa Khaliq (SEIU) and Mark Milko (Workers United) (Aug 19, 2020) - video
• Making Sense with Move to Amend program with Linda Gillison and Lawrence Abbott, MTA Labor Caucus (Aug. 28, 2020) - video

Securing Support:

• Model resolution for organized labor endorsing "We the People" amendment
• Sample letter for unions to send to state / federal elected officials urging support for "We the People" amendment

Resolutions in Support:

• Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council
• Alameda Labor Council Alameda County, CA
• The St.Paul Regional Labor Federation

Recommended Readings:

• Lessons from the Labor Movement: Cultural Change for the We the People Amendment by Greg Coleridge, May 30, 2025
• Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court Decision Likely to Cripple Unions, Further Empowers Corporations
• ‘Corporate dictatorships’ are subjugating US workers — and stripping employees of fundamental constitutional rights 
  
  

Videos:

• Interview of Lawrence Abbott, Move to Amend Labor Caucus member 
  • Voice of the People, Radio by and For the 99%, September 2, 2025
• Interview of Lawrence Abbott, Move to Amend Labor Caucus member
  • Proposed amendment could remove special interest groups from politics, America's Workforce Union Podcast, May 31, 2024
• Interview of Lawrence Abbott, Move to Amend Labor Caucus member
  • What Constitutional Rights Do Corporations Have?, Heartland Labor Forum, May 9, 2024