Unions have really gone downhill since they become a fully vested arm of the demonrat party over 70 years ago....
We have the same problem with mine at the national level.
If the local had made a public statement saying they would work with Trump and the company to keep all of the jobs here, it would happen. Instead, this “leader” is more concerned with dogma than results.
1972 was an exception. The AFL-CIO did not endorse Nixon or McGovern. Many individual unions within the AFL-CIO did endorse Nixon, the Teamsters, the East Coast Longshoremen,
The Searfarers Internation Union among others.