Teamsters internal poll

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

Teamsters' internal polling confirms what’s become increasingly clear to me; while people often claim to prioritize pocketbook issues like the economy and healthcare, the real driving forces for many are racism and hate. Time and again, we see voters willing to act against their own best interests just to preserve their prejudices.

[ColinC]

1. The more I learn about the Teamsters, their history and current positions

The more ashamed I am to have ever been a teamster

Edit:

As a California teamster, maybe not actually:

🤔

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

[demosincebirth]

4. The feeling is mutual, except i knew about the corruption of the "Old Guard" and how hard it was to get them out and

have free and fair elections. Hoffa and Jr., were the culprits. Teamsters even endorsed Reagan in '80

[ColinC]

6. I watched the docuseries Bobby Kennedy for president

And it discusses how the teamsters tried to disrupt a vigil for Bobby Kennedy in California because they were mad about how he treated Jimmy Hoffa.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. 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.”

[mymomwasright]

3. Same can be said for the "closet rascism" of many in the country

Very sad that they can't get over their hate!

[Voltaire2]

5. It's misdirected economic anxiety.

Demagogues exploit economic anxiety by pointing at an ‘other’ that can be blamed and proposing to fix their anxiety by harming the othered groups.