The International Order of Teamsters has polled its members, and the result is that greater than 58% of the membership favors Donald Trump for president. It’s just the union bosses that don’t.
As a result of that polling, the union will not be endorsing either Kamala Harris or Trump.
“After reviewing member polls for President Trump and Kamala Harris, we found insufficient support for either candidate, thus we will not endorse a presidential candidate for 2024,” the union wrote.
The Teamsters are reliably Democrat-endorsing, so sitting out an endorsement opportunity is a huge change for the union. The last time the union didn’t endorse a Democrat in the presidential race was in 1988, when George H.W. Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis.
One of the main reasons cited this year is that Trump, although supported by the membership, has not committed to vetoing “right to work” laws, a major issue for the union, which represents 1.3 million American workers.
Before the Democrat coup that took Joe Biden out of the race, Biden had polled 44.3% to Trump’s 36.3% with Teamsters rank-and-file members.
Good! I am a retired and pensioned Teamster. I was not polled. But if I had been, then my vote would certainly have gone for Donald Trump. This Teamster is an American first, and I will never support the so-called “free trade” with the belligerent, tyrannical, and slave master nation of communist China. A labor union is organized to support the political freedom and economic prosperity of its members, and of all men and women.
But, there is not a single union anywhere that actually does support political freedom and economic prosperity except for the union bosses.
Give thumbs up to all UPS drivers. Give them MAGA hats.
Unions: Force you to pay money, so the bosses can give it to someone you don’t want to be elected.
Many if not most of trade union members are conservative. I bet if IBEW did a similar poll they would get similar results. It is the leadership of these unions that lean left.
““After reviewing member polls for President Trump and Kamala Harris, we found insufficient support for either candidate, thus we will not endorse a presidential candidate for 2024,” the union wrote.”
So almost 60% of members want Trump, but I guess leadership votes count for more than 1 vote per person in order for them to say there was insufficient support.
I would bet that most, if not all, construction trade union membership favors Trump, but you’ll never hear it from the union bosses.
To all you union supporters:
Make this make sense to me.
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The union membership overwhelmingly wants to endorse one candidate over the other and the union bosses say “nope. What the members want does not matter.” But, supposedly the union is all about the members.
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How can a union claim they are all about supporting the members when they outright do not care what the member want?
I can see the Teamster’s dilemma here. I’m not sure how you choose who to endorse between the woman who helped save your pensions and the guy who wants to effectively eliminate overtime pay
Sebastian – ” I can see the union’s dilemma here. Do we want to endorse the Biden administration (Cackling Kamala) who took away organized labor’s strongest tool – the right to strike – during the railroad worker’s negotiations recently, or vote for the guy who will save your pension funds which are being lost to inflation caused by Biden’s reckless foreign policy which is funding multiple wars with borrowed money?
Always worth mentioning amid the Teamsters dialogue: Kamala Harris was the Senate’s tie-breaking vote on an $86 billion pension rescue that benefited the Teamsters more than any other union.
I cannot see the teamsters dillema. Not one bit.
Either the union is there for, and because of the members, or it is a political entity that does what it wants, regardless of the rank and file wishes. Oh… what to do. The union management wants to endorse Harris, but their members (who they supposedly represent) want to support Trump… What to do… What to DO!!!!
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Oh, I know. For the first time in ages, the union will withhold an endorsement. Whew, barely escaped there.
Next time, bring your receipts.
‘https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/aug/20/tim-walz/fact-check-tim-walz-misleads-about-trump-and-overt/
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was created in 1974, while Harris was still in grade school. And a few years before O’Biden entered into politics. Their own fact sheet says the administration included 100,000 union members from one particular union in the American Rescue Plan, which bailout was administered by the PBGC and paid for by me and other taxpayers. See here
‘https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/21/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-over-one-million-pensions-protected-thanks-to-the-american-rescue-plan/
Sorry; this was in response to Sebastian….
Sebastian – Correction to you, Trump wants to eliminate Overtime Taxes, NOT Overtime Pay. Hope you get help for your TDS.
As a nearly 4 decade long teamster
Member ,take note , Sean O”Brien and most of the Teamsters who are at the top all have very little skin in the game, they got in the teamsters and quickly used it to become parasites that feed off their memberships , most all of these guys have very little time vested before they infiltrate the Union Higher archy, even some of the business agents use the union just to gain a lifetime healthcare benifit , I think if your a BA for 5 years you can get retirement health insurance , that should be offered for people who serve for decades in the union jobs, not for the parasitical paper pushers!!!
I can tell you one of the big issues preventing the Teamsters union from endorsing the Republican in the presidential race is will be exposed and embarrassed before their members.
If you research any PAC that is heavily funding the democrat in a race, you’ll find a coalition of an environmental groups and a union, or a AfL-CIO fund. It’s there with Harris also; if the Teamsters endorsed Trump, they risk the embarrassment of how much of Harris’s campaign they have already funded through various PACs.
Ive been waiting for the trade union members to wake up and realize that this environmental allegiance is costing them good paying union jobs, They are being used, because the goal is always to elect a candidate that is focused on the environmental movement not the jobs in the private sector, which require progress, construction, and resource development.
The priorities of the public employee unions don’t always serve the unions which work in the private sector either. For example, look at where “Putting Alaskans First” is giving support and campaign dollars, does it serve any trade union members who work in the private sector? Nope, those AFL-CIO dollars are used in an end game which will only benefit the state employees & the outside of Alaska Environmental interests.
Excellent point.
Union management is stealing from the members, and using their dues for things that make them “look good” and gain political points, instead of benefitting the members. Just like politicians.
Your 2 cents is right on… follow the MONEY… Liberty Ed