The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday announced it will not formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, ending months of speculation about whether the labor union would back Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris. The union's General Executive Board said in a statement that its member polling showed no majority support for Harris, and no universal support for Trump.
@#3 ... The teamsters president O'Brien is a Trump shill. ...
Maybe, maybe not.
But there seems to be this occurring...
Teamsters Won't Endorse a Candidate, So Local Unions Back Harris
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... "As Vice President of the most pro-union administration ever, Kamala Harris worked with the Teamsters and other union workers to pass the historic Butch Lewis Act which has saved the pensions of over a million retirees to date," said Bill Carroll, President of Teamsters Joint Council 39 in Wisconsin. "This November we will work with millions of union workers across the country to defeat Donald Trump once again."
Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, also received an endorsement from Michigan's Joint Council 43, which wrote: "Both Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz have consistently demonstrated their dedication to championing the labor movement, safeguarding social security, and ensuring access to qualify healthcare for All Americans, including women's reproductive rights." ...
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harriswww.washingtonpost.com
Teamsters regional councils - representing hundreds of thousands of members and retirees - in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and western Pennsylvania - endorsed Harris
As of Thursday, at least eight regional councils, covering active Teamsters members in some 14 states, as well as 10 union locals, had endorsed Harris. The regional councils alone represent more than 500,000 Teamsters members.
No regional or local Teamsters organizations have endorsed Trump.
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