“When looking at these strikes that have been happening recently, it becomes very clear where their loyalties lie and their priorities lie,” Ken Jacobs told me about the modern GOP. “Some Republican commentators have argued that Republicans should find a way to be more a party of the working class, but when you dig down into their proposals, they are still anti-union or anti-working people.”

As union membership has declined, so has workers’ quality of life. Nearly 40% of construction workers need government assistance to get by, a higher rate than the general population.