Statements & Resolutions

January 23, 2026

Statement on Minneapolis Solidarity

WHEREAS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has taken over Minnesota's Twin Cities, taking aim at working people regardless of immigration or citizenship status. Armed, masked, and often in civilian clothes and unmarked cars, they have terrorized the working class of Minneapolis and St. Paul, targeting people from their doorsteps and on the streets during protests. ICE has repeatedly abducted and brutalized union members; and

WHEREAS, ICE agents have unjustifiably killed at least one resident of the Twin Cities, Renee Good, and have assaulted others in pursuance of their racist, authoritarian agenda; and

WHEREAS, elsewhere, ICE agents have acted as strikebreakers, intimidating workers standing up and taking action for a fair contract; and

WHEREAS, Unions, faith groups, and other working class organizations in the Twin Cities have called for a Day of Truth and Freedom on January 23rd, calling on residents not to go to school, work, or shop in order to end business as usual and demanding:

1. ICE must leave Minnesota now.

2. The officer who killed Good must be held legally accountable.

3. No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Campaign Workers Guild stands in firm solidarity with the working class of the Twin Cities in its fight to achieve peace, freedom, and justice; and 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Campaign Workers Guild will encourage and urge its members to answer the call on January 23, 2026, a Day of Truth and Freedom: to attend a non-violent solidarity event in their local community, demand corporations stand up to ICE, and call on Congress to act now to rein in ICE;

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Campaign Workers Guild echoes the Twin Cities’ working class call for accountability, an end to ICE funding, and for federal agents to stop their attacks on the working class. 

November 16, 2023

Statement: CWG Stands with Palestine

The Campaign Workers Guild (CWG) is anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, anti-apartheid, and anti-colonialism, in all its forms.  We believe that no innocent person anywhere should die due to decisions and actions of their governments, and we mourn for all losses of civilian life: Israeli, Palestinian, and others. We believe that the safety of Israelis and Palestinians are not mutually exclusive, but rather, fundamentally must be achieved together. We condemn Hamas’s attack on civilians on October 7th. We condemn Israel’s continued, indiscriminate assault on Gaza. We support calls from Israeli families for a full prisoner-hostage exchange–everyone for everyone. We recognize that these recent escalations are part of a nearly century-old conflict rooted in settler-colonialism that has and is resulting in ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians. We stand and take action in solidarity with unionists from around the globe, and at this moment are following the leadership of Palestinian unionists

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2021

Resolution: in Solidarity with the
Palestinian People

 

December 23, 2020

Statement: The Campaign Workers Guild on Police Unions and the labor movement

Police unions have no place in the labor movement. To uphold a labor movement that stands for racial justice, we must close the doors to oppressors. We are calling on the AFL-CIO to disaffiliate with the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA). The Campaign Workers Guild (CWG) was formed to transform our industry and improve equity and accessibility within the campaign and political advocacy industry, and we unequivocally stand with the Black Lives Matter Movement. There is a disconnect between the functions of police unions and the AFL-CIO’s stated goals to ‘to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms’ and to improve the lives of working families and pursue social equity. 

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May 26, 2020

Statement: In Response to the Murder of George Floyd

We are furious and deeply saddened by the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers. His murder is profoundly tragic, yet not unique; it builds on 400 years of state-sanctioned violence and police brutality against our Black brothers, sisters, and siblings, including the recent murders of both Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade. 

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