Rank and file came out last week as supporting Trump.
Top levels issued a press release that this cycle, the Teamsters Union would not be openly supporting any candidate.
R&F got pissed.
Strike doesn’t surprise me.
Get the Corporate suits to push the top level to reconsider?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It’s bad enough the Teamsters Top Floor don’t want to say they support Trump. What they really, REALLY, don’t want to say is that they’re still sending the R&F dues money to the DNC. And then we have the dock workers union guys saying they want protection from automation, as well as some big raises. Not a blinking one of them seems to understand is that their demands is the force that GUARANTEES automation. Don’t be surprised if at least some of the ports stay shut down long enough to back fit some higher tech machinery in their handling operations. If they actually like their high paying jobs they should think about how to be efficient and competitive?