Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has reportedly snubbed the Teamsters Union — which represents more than one million members — after the union’s president gave a populist speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) to court GOP lawmakers on pro-worker policies.
At the RNC, Teamsters President Sean M. O’Brien delivered a historic address and praised former President Donald Trump for inviting him to speak. The goal of the speech, O’Brien said, was to make inroads in the Republican Party, which increasingly represents the nation’s working- and middle-class.
“President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention, and that’s unprecedented. No other nominee in the race would’ve invited the Teamsters into this arena,” O’Brien said:
We need to call the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtables what they are: They are unions for big business … here’s the fact: Against these gigantic multinational corporations, an individual has zero power. It is only when Americans band together in democratic unions that we win real improvements on wages, benefits, and working conditions. [Emphasis added] […]
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