Teamsters will not make a presidential endorsement

[RandySF]

Breaking on my phone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What in holy fuck is wrong with them...

Hadn't they already endorsed Biden?

[Smilo]

2. O'Brien is being a republican tool

"The International Brotherhood of Teamsters executive board voted to sit this election out, coinciding with new inroads Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has forged with the Republican Party."

Inroads forged with the republican party - what is he drinking?

It's a sad day when you have a union leader throw his hat in with people who despise unions.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Shit like this makes me wanna

give up.

The candidates that are 100% pro union and will do everything in their power to protect them is Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, trump will destroy them, this is madness I don't know how much more I can take.

[LauraInLA]

5. Looks like the members also favor Trump ;(.

[Cha]

7. It's Sick and means he approves of the treasonous

felon and his trying to overthrow Our Government. And they're Cowards.

I hope he get Backfire Blowback.

[onenote]

17. If he's a repub tool, why didn't they endorse Trump? A sizable majority of the members support Trump

[LauraInLA]

3. More than half of Teamsters members appear to support Trump?

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4886854-teamsters-poll-trump-harris/

The Teamsters, which is one of the largest unions in the country, said a poll of members conducted after last week’s debate between Harris and Trump found 58 percent backed Trump compared to 31 percent who supported the vice president. The poll was conducted by Lake Research Partners.

[forthemiddle]

6. More than 58% of their members favored Trump

This is is probably the best outcome, but way to piss off the majority of its members.

[nolabear]

8. Only 20% of teamsters are women.

I don’t know how accurate it is but I imagine a whole lot of old fashioned men who just can’t see a woman president, but enough who can to keep them from endorsing tfg.

Interestingly their biggest constituency is the USPS.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. UPS, not USPS. And less than 10 percent of union Carpenters are women, and that union endorsed Harris.

[forthemiddle]

14. Honestly, I understand your concern of women

And that is admirable, but in this case they are representing the union workers, not the population as a whole. Isn’t that what they are supposed to do?

I think the Union feels that the best outcome is no endorsement. They are risking the trust of the members otherwise.

[arlyellowdog]

9. That's fine. No news is good news

[hadEnuf]

10. The Teamsters just aren't what they used to be.

The choice for their members is obvious.

Stupid and confusing move.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. This is more about SOB fucking up than anything tbh. No endorsement is fine.

[orangecrush]

13. Fuck 'em.

Somebody got paid.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Seems cowardly to not take a position.

Especially when one party does everything it can to destroy unions and the other does nothing but provide support. Are they stupid?

[onenote]

16. Given that a sizable majority of Teamsters support Trump, it was pretty brave for leadership not to endorse Trump.

[C_U_L8R]

19. Delusional

The membership seems to shoot themselves right in the paycheck. That Trump-branded hate is pure crack.

[dsc]

18. I hope they have the intellectual honestly to give back every single, solitary cent that Democrats gave them to save

their pensions. If not, if we get unified control we should do it for them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. West Coast Teamsters break with national chapter in endorsing Harris

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/west-coast-teamsters-endorse-harris-00179923

West Coast Teamsters announced their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, just minutes after national Teamsters leadership declined to issue a presidential endorsement.

The move represents a sharp break within the powerful union’s membership in liberal states like California, where former President Donald Trump remains a widely unpopular political figure. The union’s national headquarters released internal survey results earlier in the day that showed close to 60 percent of its members backed Trump.

Teamsters Joint Councils 7 and 42 — which are made up of 39 local unions representing 300,000 members in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam — wrote in a statement that Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have a history of supporting expanded labor protections for workers, like the proposed Protect the Right to Organize Act and a Minnesota law that will ban employers from forcing workers to attend anti-labor meetings.

“Teamster members work and live in cities as well as in rural communities, come from diverse backgrounds, and have different views, but Joint Council 7 and 42 Teamsters refuse to be divided by extremist political forces or greedy corporations that want to see us fail,” said Teamsters Joint Council 7 President Peter Finn. “As Teamsters we will stand together to have a strong voice on the job, provide for our families, and serve the communities where we work.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Teamster Chapters in Battleground States endorse Kamala Harris

Link to tweet