West Coast Teamsters break with national chapter in endorsing Harris/Walz

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Ben Meiselas 🇺🇸🦅@meiselasb
Looks like Teamsters leader Sean O’Brien overplayed his hand trying to undermine the most pro-union admin in USA history (Biden-Harris) and help the most anti-union admin in USA history (Trump-Trump). Teamsters leadership in key swing states are now endorsing Harris-Walz. One candidate supports the PRO Act and the other is against it. One candidate supported the most pro-labor leaders and policies and the other support the most anti-labor leader and policies.

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. . . .

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. . . .

On the X platform, Minnesota Reformer deputy editor Max Nesterak posted the press release announcing the Joint Council's endorsement:



Local unions in Joint Council 32 represent a wide variety of people in upper Midwest workplaces across the upper Midwest:

Our 12 Local Unions include more than 75,000 active and retired Teamster members in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.

They work in many crafts. Some are public employees, including law enforcement personnel, public defenders, snow plow drivers, court reporters, University cooks and nutrition experts, facilities managers, grounds keepers and maintenance workers. Some are over-the-road, car haul or small package drivers. Others are drivers for bakeries, laundries, dairies, liquor distributors, school bus companies and health care facilities. Still others work in warehouses, manufacturing plants, grocery stores and paper mills, as well as for large employers such as Honeywell and United Parcel Service. They also work for newspapers or as auto mechanics. . . .

https://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2024/09/breaking-with-ibts-neutrality-joint-council-32-teamsters-endorse-harris-walz-ticket.html

also:

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

The council representing 35,000 Teamsters across Western Pennsylvania endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, breaking with the decision by its parent union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to not endorse a candidate in the race for president.
https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/western-pa-teamsters-endorse-kamala-harris-breaking-with-national-union/


back in August:

Teamsters’ Black caucus defies leadership with Harris endorsement
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/13/teamsters-black-caucus-harris-endorsement-00173911

[Hekate]

1. Excellent news