Freshly elected DNC Chair Ken Martin is promising a whole new party.

New Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Tuesday that union workers and labor leaders will be “core to my decision-making.”

Martin told The New York Times late last year that he found it “deeply alarming … that for the first time in modern history, the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor.”

“I fundamentally believe that our party is grounded in the values, principles, and aspirations of the working class,” Martin said in his Tuesday memo.

“As Trump wages his war on working families, Democrats will fiercely answer the call to my favorite old union song, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I’ll tell you what: Democrats are on the side of the worker,” he said. “We will show Americans every day that workers in fact do have more power than any billionaire.”

Unions and working class however are not necessarily the same thing.

Trump broke away union members that are more ‘working class’ but unions have been experiencing their growth by unionizing woke white-collar employees in newspapers, leftist nonprofit activist groups and the government.

There’s a big difference between representing mine workers and the Southern Poverty Law Center Union representing employees of the leftist group.

And the unions repping government employees. It’s these unions that are currently the focus of most Democrat activism as the Trump administration tries to cut back the size of government.

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) claims that their members are ‘working class’ but few actual working-class people see D.C. bureaucrats as working class. And as long as Dems are advocating for D.C. bureaucrat unions, few will see Democrats as the party of the working class.

But that’s also the current snapshot of the unionized workforce.

The percentage of union members in 2024 has decreased from 10% in 2023 to 9.9% in 2024. While the rate was 32.2% for public employees it was only 5.9% for the private sector. There are 14.3 million union members, and 1.7 million workers who were represented by a union but not members. Those employed aged 45 to 54 had the highest union membership rate, 12.6% while those 16 to 24 had the lowest rate, 4.3%.

Unions are a government sinecure. They’re not working class. They’re government class.