Unionized workers going on strike would crush Trump
SOS to the rescue of public programs, services and the unionized workers that provide them! People can’t survive without food, health care and housing. (“Federal closer reaches crisis point,“ Naperville Sun, Nov. 2, 2025)
A general strike — workers withdrawing their labor in unity with community groups, the unemployed and retirees across the nation would be a force greater than the political schemes of any aspiring king. When Donald Trump gutted the Transportation Security Administration’s union, Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson said, workers “have very few options but to join together to organize for a general strike.”
Without labor not a single Trumpian wheel of death and destruction could turn.
Freed from being under the despot’s thumb, workers will mobilize to feed people, care for babies and the sick, and preserve order in the interests of the working class. The power of strikers to manage their own affairs in unity with community forces for the public good will win the strike!
Mary Ann Curtis, Naperville
Member of AFSCME Illinois Retirees Chapter 31, Sub-chapter 68 (DuPage County)
LWV urges DuPage County cooperation for smooth elections
The undersigned leaders of the DuPage County Leagues of Women Voters note with concern that the ongoing dispute between the DuPage County clerk and the DuPage County Board has continued for so long that it now risks jeopardizing the county’s readiness for the upcoming March 2026 election.
We expect both parties to act in the best interests of the voters they were elected to serve and to put these differences to rest.
The League of Women Voters strongly encourages that all necessary steps be taken to ensure that elections proceed as scheduled and that voters experience no disruptions in the electoral process. It is the responsibility of the county clerk to administer elections that are fair, complete and accessible for all registered voters in DuPage County — and to do so in a transparent manner.
We call on the clerk and the board to work cooperatively and promptly resolve their differences, exercising their sworn responsibility to the voters of DuPage County.
Marianne Hunnicutt, President, LWV Downers Grove | Woodridge | Lisle
Jan Dorner and Dorothy McGuire, Co-Presidents, LWV Elmhurst
Heather Fleming and Lynn Bruno, Co-Presidents, LWV Glen Ellyn
Julie Niles, President, LWV Naperville
Barbara Hochstadt and Diana Hoke, Co-Presidents, LWV of Roselle-Bloomingdale Area
Maury Goodman, President, LWV Wheaton
Trump’s been a disaster, but Biden wasn’t much better
“Let them eat cake” was a saying was attributed to Marie Antoinette when the poor in France were starving. Today Donald Trump is saying it with a $300 million ballroom addition to the White House.
This is the same president who said he would stop the war in Ukraine on the first day he took office.
He pardoned all the people involved in an insurrection as well as a dirty congressman.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin has totally disregarded him.
At an election rally, he made fun of one-time presidential contender Nikki Haley by asking, “Where’s her husband?” when, in fact, he was an Army major serving in Iraq.
Our president did not serve in the military because of bone chips in his feet. Having a millionaire father did not hurt either.
Then again, the Democrats are no better. They let Joe Biden run for reelection when they should have brought in a new candidate at the start and honest debates could have been held.
On national TV, Biden said he would not pardon his son, Hunter, and then went ahead and did so.
The word “indivisible” is in our pledge of allegiance. It means we will work together. Tell that to Congress.
Charles Brown, Naperville
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