Labor department rhetoric, such as āOne Homeland. One People. One Heritageā, prompt comparisons to Nazi slogan
Union leaders have accused the Trump administration of a ārhetorical shift towards white supremacyā 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 āremember who you are, Americanā, with the phrase: āOne Homeland. One People. One Heritage.ā
Users of X, formerly Twitter, and Grok, the platformās AI tool, highlighted a similarity with the Nazi slogan: āEin Volk, ein Reich, ein FĆ¼hrerā (āone people, one realm, one leaderā).
āThe similarity to that Nazi slogan is bad,ā Christopher Hayes, a labor historian and professor at Rutgers University, told the Guardian, expressing alarm over āthe motivation behind it, the message, the sentiment and desired outcomeā.
Two unions are mentioned: āInternational Union of Painters & Allied Tradesā and āNational Nurses Unitedā. I understand that the term āuinonā in the states has been heavily associated with construction , and there tends to be a conservative lean in construction, but not all unions are like that. For instance, Iām in the UAW branch for scientific researchers. Just writing this to put out there that unions can, and should, be in every industry and that the political leanings of unions is case by case.