Teamsters Union Declines to Endorse Harris

Another take: Teamsters leadership refused to endorse Trump despite Trump's support from a majority (58%) of Teamsters..

It’s a contradictory dynamic considering Pubs are anti-union..

 

Their polling had a majority for Biden back before he dropped out, so you gotta kinda wonder what explanation there is other than the obvious lol

 

Teamsters boss Sean O'Brien gives a speech at the RNC yet still hasn't endorsed Trump?

 

A non-endorsement? They literally wont be doing anything to help Trump win the state.

 

Old news. Teamsters are low information voters. There is no one less friendly to unions than a Trump GOP but knuckle draggers feel out of place in the Democratic Party these days.

Dec 2023 article:

Biden won the Teamsters endorsement in 2020. It’s not a sure bet in 2024.

 

Each member will vote the way they want, so while the money will go to the Dems, while most of the votes will go to Trump. Either way... it's all about the votes.

 

9 of 10 national Labor unions have endorsed Harris. And just minutes after the national Teamsters endorsed neither, the West Coast Teamsters endorsed Kamala, so she has about 9 and a 1/3 out of 10 endorsements.

Either way, Pubs are anti-union so they shouldn't care, right?

 

One teamster local breaks from the National union to back Harris. They credit her with casting the vote to save their pensions.

 

More than 1 has endorsed her:

Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams said on social media that Harris had earned the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 43 in Michigan, Teamsters Joint Council 39 in Wisconsin, and Teamsters Joint Council 7 and Joint Council 42, which represent 300,000 members across California, Hawaii, Guam and battleground Nevada.

New York will soon as well.

Harris racks up regional endorsements from Teamsters locals

 

One more:
Western Pa. Teamsters endorse Kamala Harris, breaking with national union

 

Does this stuff matter? Would any of you change your vote because the company you work for publicly endorsed a candidate?

 

A lot of it is money and people power.

The unions help tremendously with GOTV efforts. Someone needs a ride to the polls, doors need to knocked, phone calls need to be made-- unions have traditionally been a great help.

They also often have space available for meetings for trainings for volunteers. The Republicans use churches. The Democrats use union halls.

 

O'Brien is a MAGAt. The rank and file are lining up to support Harris/Walz.

 

I would say the vast majority of endorsements don't matter. Union rank and file are free to vote for whoever they want, and its not uncommon for leadership to be at odds with some of their members on who to endorse, if anyone. Unlike other endorsements though, union locals do still have a lot of GOTV capacity (one reason conservatives are hostile to unions). Generally an endorsement comes with some kind of manpower commitment to the candidate in terms of volunteering. Also while not endorsing, the national union will probably still donate money to both candidates.

 

You want endorsements??? Here. You. Go.

 

Well, nothing more American than having the Federal government bail out independent union pension. SMDH. And, to be clear, it was wrong to bail out Chrysler in the 1970's as well.
Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances. Can't wait until the State pensions, like California, come begging to Washington DC for relief. Not my circus, not my monkey - complain to those in charge in California.

 

I can understand that POV. OTOH, it helped a lot of American workers.