Charles Spindler: Teamsters Dismiss Membership Mandate

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Teamsters Dismiss Membership Mandate: Fail to Endorse Presidential Candidate

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), for the first time since 1996, is not endorsing a presidential candidate. This is odd (to say the least) for a number of reasons:

1) The IBT has, traditionally, almost always supported the Democrat candidate.

2) A straw poll taken among the IBT rank and file indicates that six out of ten members support Donald J. Trump, for both IBT endorsement and the presidency.

3) IBT General President Sean M. O’Brien (also a fourth-generation Teamster), in spite of the IBT’s traditional support of Democrat candidates, was not invited to speak at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was, however, invited by Trump and the Republican National Committee and, on Monday, July 15th in Milwaukee, O’Brien stepped up to the podium as a headlined presenter.

All of this, in my humble opinion, begs the question: WHY would the fourth largest labor union in the US, consisting of 1.4M members, refuse to endorse Donald J. Trump—most especially when 60% of its membership indicates their support of Trump?

That question can be answered neither simply nor easily, to be sure, but I’ll take a shot at it. Most labor unions in our nation have traditionally supported Democrat candidates at all levels of government. Why that is true may have been more clear in years and decades gone by, but the reasons are increasingly less clear today.

With so many organizations now struggling to survive—let alone provide good jobs and wages to US citizens—any union that truly cares about its constituents should obviously support and endorse the candidate(s) who are most likely to improve our economy such as to provide strength and stability to the employers of those constituents. There is not one shade of doubt that candidate, right now, is Donald J. Trump.

Fact is, none of the unions in our nation are getting it right any longer. Except for the Teamsters, all of the other major unions have endorsed—first—Biden, and now Harris. Those endorsements, in virtually all cases and in virtually all ways, do not best serve those unions’ members. Union leadership is deceptive and corrupt, just as with electoral politics, because it IS politics.

If I were a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I would be screaming for Sean M. O’Brien’s immediate resignation.

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3 thoughts on “Charles Spindler: Teamsters Dismiss Membership Mandate”

  1. The government has a way of leading the leader horses to the trough. Money and influence.

    My membership was allowed to endorse Reagan, once, then they were forgotten. My membership was in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Some wise fools thought it would be great to merge with those Hoffa guys, so my vote on matters like this were perpetually muddied. If you have membership voting over 60% to buck the traditional trend, which always defaults to the Democrat, you’re making waves that the Democrats wanted no part of. I guarantee you that money to the leadership made that union president change his mind, and maybe even the possibility that his job might be in jeopardy. Probably the latter 60% isn’t enough for the president of even a powerful union to buck trends. He needed 75-80%. That’s how powerful Democrat power brokers are. I’ll bet they made several deals with the Devil, in a time when truckers are dropping like flies, because of our fantastic economy under Biden/Harris.

    Not much has changed in unions, when there are strong whispers nudging in a presidential election. And the idea that the proposed candidate you are to support is an absolute evil piece of nonsense matters little to the ones in charge. Democrats are a top down organization, and to a lesser extent, the unions are, also. Seniority also gets in the way of this, because those with the more seniority are also from a previous time with the same old “Working Man” mentality, which means that the Democrats always tend to bubble to the surface.
    At least Trump got him to speak. That was enough to portray the myth of the union block.

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