The Teamsters announced that they would not endorse anyone for President two days after the union’s leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris and months after meeting with President Donald Trump.
“Neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement.
He added, “We sought commitments from both [former president Donald] Trump and [Vice President Kamala] Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries—and to honor our members’ right to strike—but were unable to secure those pledges.”
The union’s decision comes two days after senior leaders met with Harris to weigh whom to endorse.
The Teamsters, representing truck drivers, freight workers, and others, held similar meetings with Trump and President Joe Biden when he was still seeking re-election.
The union, which has 1.3 million members, is one of the largest in the world. A vice president at large of the union, John Palmer, said the union collected input on an endorsement from its members through straw polling and a QR poll from a code printed on a union magazine.
On Wednesday, the union released the results of their survey, which was conducted after Biden dropped out of the race. It found that almost 60% of rank-and-file union members preferred to endorse Trump, while 34% backed Harris.
The Teamsters supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. They also backed Barack Obama in both of his presidential runs, John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000.
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The union’s Communist leaders can’t go against the Communist Party USA, therefore the go neutral even Trump is proven to be the better choice. Unions stifle work ethic as well as production. Was in a union, (1970s), actually asked to slow down so another mechanic could be put on! (three times)
Yep, went into the meeting looking for a handout. It’s okay, your members already voted.
You do not get any closer to being a socialist than being in a Union. Unions are for cry babies. May sound like a good idea, but in reality it is running with the pinkos. All unions are corrupted. The first union was a socialist political front. Nothing has changed.
You have to police your unions or your masters will hijack and use them against you. You all need Unions. I know. I have been cursed by having to work with you, America, and most of you are “so horribly math imparied” that you cannot even read a balance sheet or comprehend your fair cut of the labor rate. You let your masters tell you the Labor Rate! You do not have benefits or JUNK benefits! No Pensions! Your Grandparents all had Pensions!
And, then I hear that BIG MEGA corporations tell their people to apply to government for welfare; because they cannot provide, unlike communist Cuba! All of their People have healthcare, and if you GO to, CUBA, ( Many Ameircans do) they will provide for you too! They are Humane. I really do not care about the childish COMMIE QUIPS when America cannot even provide for their own people to the Cuban Standard.
So … I am well aware Ameirca that you
ve been programmed to be slaves and love your slavery. The Problem I have, America, is that Youve so badly Impoverished me that I cannot LEAVE THIS HELL! Every GD country on the list has “Pension Requirements,” as they do not take anyone that does not have a Huge Amount of Money or a Pension! They are not Dumb, like YOU, America, as they (Civilized Nations) do not want Immigrints coming to poach their Benefits. Naturally, America, You do not have any benefits. Your Masters Ripped You Off and you thought that you did not need a Union. Ignorance is Bliss.It’s not surprising “Big Labor” supports Democrats. It was the Union during FDR that ran a cartoon ad calling Republicans “Nazis”.