They all voted against the 40 Billion Dollar bail out of their pension plan the plan that was mismanaged and stolen from by the Teamsters fucking their own employees.

Fuck the Teamsters. With friends like them…….

most unions still support Dems, as well as Teamster.

I find Politico usually have negative articles concerning Democrats and favor shithole and the fucked up Republican Party.

to a large part because of labor is why reagan won over Carter, and since then unions have been losing ground since then.

Teamster members voted heavily for Trump in 2024.

A group of retired Teamsters were featured at the DNC convention in 2024 and the Michigan Local endorsed Harris/Walz -

There are 1.4 million Teamster members, so of course a group that large will have differing opinions. However, 59.6% for Trump was pretty high for a Republican.

That number was based on a "3rd party electronic poll" for an endorsement, where the number who actually participated in the poll is unknown (unless you can find a source with the data sets). That was not representing a percent of actual "votes".

Do you have a link to your statement?

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has decided to withhold its endorsement in the November presidential election, but that hasn’t stopped its locals from bucking Teamsters leaders and making their voices heard.

And they are all in for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sean O’Brien, president of the nearly 1.3 million member union, announced Sept. 18 that the Teamsters would not endorse Harris or Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 election. Internal union polling showed that a majority of its members backed Trump over Harris, according to numerous news reports. O’Brien turned heads in July when he praised Trump in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

But Teamsters members in battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada took matters into their own hands, publicly backing Harris just hours after O’Brien’s announcement.

According to The Washington Post, at least eight regional Teamsters councils with active members in 14 states, and 10 locals have endorsed Harris.

https://uupinfo.org/communications/uupdate/240924.php

Harris campaign: Councils representing one million Teamsters endorse Kamala Harris

Local Teamsters unions across the country, including in key battleground states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, have rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz. Collectively, these unions represent one million Teamsters. These local Teamsters have committed to immediately begin knocking doors and engaging in other voter contact efforts across the b...

https://www.wispolitics.com/2024/harris-campaign-councils-representing-one-million-teamsters-endorse-kamala-harris/

From the official Teamster site:

are too?

It seems like the union leadership and a lot of the membership have decided that the union should be focusing more on taking sides in culture wars than promoting union issues.

although there IS a subset of Teamsters members who have always been right-wingers.

The election for that position is not until 2026, but right after O'Brien did his bullshit of "non-endorsements" (but courting the GOP), he immediately got a challenge by the Teamsters VP for the President position when it comes time for that election next year.

Teamsters exec announces challenge to O'Brien after RNC speech

The Teamsters actually denounced that mess (this was back in 2022 right before O'Brien took over as head) -

Teamsters Denounce Freedom Convoy Blockade at Canadian Border

especially those who work for big companies. But there are quite a few independent truckers out there (solo or part of small trucking companies) who pick up jobs (including seasonal) as they can find them. That idiotic "Freedom Convoy" were anti-vaxxers.

Not surprised

From within.

Anyone really, truly surprised? When you have a loser party in charge promising all sorts of bullshit, you will have old allies jumping ship to what they think are better things. Sternly written letters and I’m really upset memes on Facebook won’t do it democrats. I do admire the Texas democrats for actually doing something in their best interest. They walked out and prevented a quorum. I know it won’t last forever, but they did something. Gavin Newsome is looking into redistricting California, fight fire with fire, along with New York…. If we want at least 2 more trump years, then congressional dems, just keep doing what you do… bring a cookie to a gun fight, but where are the town halls from EVERY DEMOCRAT? Do something out of the box. Go on Fox News, newsmax, Bill Maher, and any other right wing media and tell the truth about what the right is in for… they know, but need to hear it. Take a page out of right wing playbook…. Sometimes you have to get in the mud to find a lost gold ring…..

…allegedly

Now that you've done all that, we'll just head on over to the dark side!

It's time for Dems to stop playing nice with assholes like him.

but the tractor-trailor driving segment has always been full of rw conservatives going all the way back to the late 60s when they were confronting students protesting the VN war and calling for progressive change.