Posted on 09/18/2024 3:59:31 PM PDT by thegagline
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate on Wednesday after releasing internal polling that showed a majority of its members supported former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
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“Unfortunately, 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 President Sean O’Brien said in a statement. “We sought commitments from both Trump and 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.”
Ahead of the decision, the Teamsters shared internal data showing that a majority of members supported Trump over Harris. According to an electronic member poll that was initiated after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, about 60% of members believed the union should endorse Trump while 34% supported Harris. About 6% said they supported another candidate.
“It’s a great honor. They’re not going to endorse the Democrats. That’s a big thing,” Trump said during a campaign stop in New York City on Wednesday. “Democrats automatically have the Teamsters. They took a vote, and I guess I was at 60% or more, and that’s a great honor.”
Harris met with Teamsters leaders on Monday. O’Brien had a prime-time speaking slot at this summer’s Republican National Convention but did not appear at the Democratic convention the following month. *** The last time the Teamsters sat out a presidential election was 1996. It endorsed Democratic nominees in the ensuing six elections, including Trump’s opponents Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020. The union last backed a Republican presidential candidate in 1988, with an endorsement of George H.W. Bush.
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Cowards.
Unions suck.
Freaking idiots. (Somewhat) Laissez Faire Capitalism vs State-Controlled and Owned production. And they want the commies. We’ll all be driving UAW-built Ladas and Yugos if Harris wins.
“The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate on Wednesday after releasing internal polling that showed a majority of its members supported former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.”
I bet my house that if “the majority of the teamster’s union supported Kamala” they (teamster’s spokesperson) would endorse for her!
Idiots.
Well, there is that.....
Well at least the White Teamsters Caucus will be supporting Trump. 🤣
They will not submit because “about 60% of members believed the union should endorse Trump?”
They are going to spend a lot of time pouting in the corner because that 60% is liable to go up when the election is a couple of weeks away.
LGB’s handlers will be EOing everything in sight, authority or not, needed or not, wanted or not.
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why did they release the internal polling?
seems like a back door endorsement
The problem here is with the corruption union leadership knowing they will place their power and positions at risk if they openly defy the rank and file by endorsing Harris. So they decline to support a candidate in the hopes that the next time they are up for their own election the union members will keep re-electing the incumbents.
corrupt, not corruption.
They are hoping that they will get slightly better government supplied housing than average slave when we go full Communist.
If the Teamsters aren’t out doing legwork (unions do that a lot, especially teachers’ unions) and raising more money, then that is a win by default for Trump.
If males resent the schoolmarm nasal Karen whine of the scolding and egotistical Kamala Harris and secretly vote for Trump, and black men have had enough and either won’t vote at all or go for Trump, plus Teamsters hold back like this, all of this is good.
The BS reality of Unions: The hands support conservatives and republicans in majority. The union heads support Dims.
The hands want the actual work. The heads support the lies of the Dims.
This is my union, 100%. And what it’s like in 3 others around the area that I know of.
Members want jobs and money not unemployment
That’s like voting present.
Trump’s Long Island rally live updates: Ex-prez’s brags he’s won the endorsement of ‘the rank and file’ of the Teamsters to raucous crowd
The Dems must be fuming...
““Unfortunately, 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 President Sean O’Brien said in a statement.
Two thirds of your members want Trump..,you lousy prick.
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