This is a snub for the Democratic candidate for the November presidential election, Kamala Harris. The Teamsters union, American truck drivers, has decided not to support her in the presidential election. A first for an organization that has systematically called for voting for Democratic candidates since 2000. This union is known to the general public for its legendary president Jimmy Hoffa, linked to the mafia and disappeared in 1975, undoubtedly murdered. It will weigh particularly heavily on its 1.3 million members in the election.
“Unfortunately, none of the leading candidates have been able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure that the interests of workers are always put ahead of those of big business. “, announced its president Sean O’Brien on Wednesday, September 18. The latter was particularly angry with the administration of US President Joe Biden and Congress, which forced him to sign an agreement to avoid a strike on the railways at the end of 2022, which threatened to paralyze the country.
The union leader was ceremonially invited to the Republican convention held in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) in July, where he thanked former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and snubbed the Democratic convention in Chicago (Illinois), from July 19 to August 22. A meeting, on Monday, September 16, with Mme Harris failed to save the case, while Trump triumphed. “While the Teamsters Executive Committee is not giving any formal endorsement, Teamsters worker members have been loud and clear: they want President Trump back in the White House!”Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt writes. A poll with unclear methodology released by the Teamsters claims that 59% of its members would support Trump and 34% would support Trump.me Harris. To mitigate this disappointment, Mme In the afternoon, Harris presented the list of state and black truckers’ supporters, the Black Caucus, which attests to a divided union.
Trump might have gotten O’Brien’s support had he not made savagingly anti-union comments in his conversation with Elon Musk in mid-August, praising the billionaire’s mass layoffs without mentioning the company by name: “I’m watching what you’re doing. You come in and say: “Do you want to resign?” They go on strike and you say: “It doesn’t matter, you’re all out there.” »Mr. Trump exclaimed. The Teamsters boss was outraged: “Firing workers for organizing, striking, and exercising their rights as Americans is economic terrorism.”
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