Big Labor has always been in the back pocket of the Democrat Party.
But it started to change when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee.
And Teamsters President Sean O’Brien blew a gasket when he heard what Tim Walz told Jon Stewart about union bosses.
Labor unions have been the most powerful and influential force in the Democrat Party for years.
Big Labor spent more than $2 billion in the 2022 Midterms to elect their hand-picked Democrat candidates to office – 99% of Big Labor’s political donations go to Democrats and left-wing causes.
But Democrats depend on more than Big Labor’s billions of dollars to win elections.
Big Labor also provides an army of grassroots volunteers to attend events, make phone calls, and knock on doors for Democrat candidates.
But the Democrat Party has pledged total allegiance to their woke extremist agenda above all else in recent years, even though most rank-and-file union members oppose such nonsense.
And a few of America’s biggest labor unions are sitting on the sidelines this election by refusing to endorse Kamala Harris.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the largest private-sector union in the United States.
The Teamsters have endorsed every Democrat Party Presidential candidate since 1996.
But the Teamsters recently announced that the union will not be endorsing any candidate for President this year.
The Teamster refused to endorse Kamala for a good reason.
A sample poll of union members conducted in September indicated that nearly 60% of Teamsters supported Trump compared to 31% for Kamala and that the former President leads the Democrat Presidential nominee with the union’s members in every state the Teamsters polled.
Teamster President Sean O’Brien spoke at this year’s Republican National Convention, but he wasn’t invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
And during a recent interview with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, Kamala’s running mate, Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz, took a swipe at O’Brien by essentially calling him a gutless coward.
“They have tough politics inside those,” he told Stewart about the unions. “These are folks that are directly responsible to their members.”
“Some of those leaders did not show the courage they needed to,” he continued. “The vast majority of union leaders showed the courage, they’re backing us.”
O’Brien is known for his aggressiveness and hot-headed temper and will certainly not appreciate Walz implying that he is a coward for not endorsing Kamala in spite of his member’s rather overwhelming support for Trump.
But the Teamsters aren’t the only union sitting this Presidential election out.
The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) also refused to endorse a candidate.
“Today, the IAFF Executive Board, by a margin of 1.2 percent, voted to not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election,” the IAFF wrote in a release. “As we have over our 106-year history, the IAFF will continue its work to improve the lives of firefighters and their families.”
Problems are mounting all around Kamala Harris.
The honeymoon phase has ended and her poll numbers are slipping.
But that nor the momentum at Donald Trump’s back will matter if working-class Americans don’t show up to vote in force.
