The nation’s second-largest union is preparing for attacks on working people and organized labor under President-elect Donald Trump and his anti-worker administration, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. 

Citing an internal memo dated December 14, Bloomberg‘s Josh Eidelson says the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is planning for a 30 percent budget reduction in 2017—including cuts that could impact the influential Fight for $15 movement, the fast-food worker campaign backed by the union.

“As we prepare to fight back against the forthcoming attacks on working people and our communities under an extremist-run government, we know we must realign our resources and streamline our investments to buttress and broaden our movement to restore economic and democratic opportunity for all families.”
—Sahar Wali, SEIU

“Because the far right will control all three branches of the federal government, we will face serious threats to the ability of working people to join together in unions,” SEIU president Mary Kay Henry wrote in the memo, which came about a week after Trump nominated anti-worker, fast-food CEO Andy Puzder to serve as Labor secretary. “These threats require us to make tough decisions that allow us to resist these attacks and to fight forward despite dramatically reduced resources.”

While the memo lays out plans for a 10 percent cut effective at the start of the new year—and references upcoming election cycles—union spokesperson Sahar Wali declined to provide Eidelson with details about how the cuts could affect specific efforts. “As we prepare to fight back against the forthcoming attacks on working people and our communities under an extremist-run government, we know we must realign our resources and streamline our investments to buttress and broaden our movement to restore economic and democratic opportunity for all families,” she said. “As part of this process, we are currently looking at possible ways to improve our budgets.”

With Republicans in control of both Congress and the executive branch (plus wielding a Supreme Court majority once Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is confirmed), “[e]verything from slashing health-care spending to passing a federal law extending ‘Right to Work’ to all private-sector employees could be on the table,” Eidelson writes.

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