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Be sure to tell that to your friend over at the teamsters.
The teamsters president is playing political games. They only want the PRO act. It wasn't happening with only lukewarm democratic support, so by getting the Republican party to cheer about being "pro-labor" at the televised RNC, it pressures Democrats to chase the ball. Don't believe me? Well it worked. Democrats were demanding a vote on the PRO act the next week.
I'm a Teamster (school bus driver, so we're exempted from having to go break anybody's knees at midnight) and the vast majority of my coworkers are trumpers, unfortunately. The Teamster prez may just be pandering to his own organization.
What exactly did that accomplish? Republicans are still going to filibuster it in the Senate and Johnson probably won't even let it come to a vote in the House.
Something doesn’t sit right with that teamsters guy because he also said this:
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1813263649349280139
You’re probably right although speaking at the RNC made it seem like he was leaning towards the GOP. It also caused at least 1 active teamster to think the right was pro union so I had to share the clip.
How does it sacrifice long term goals? He should be pressuring legacy democrats the same as Republicans. With this move he forced the Republican party to appear more union friendly and at the same time put a fire under the asses of democrats to keep passing pro-union policy wherever they can.
~~Considering how aggressive unions can be, I imagine the UAW leadership isn't happy with the Teamsters union for the RNC bullshit. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of shit-flinging going on behind the scenes. It wouldn't be the first time that unions have gone at each other's throats.~~
~~I hope they don't start fighting though. While union support may be increasing, there's still a risk that negative press could slow or halt unionization efforts.~~
Edit: some other users have suggested that they may be playing political games to get the Dems to give them the support they're looking for; which makes waaaay more sense than the Teamsters president actually supporting Trump.