return2ozma@lemmy.world to unions@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoTeamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American Historyteamster.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11cross-posted to: labor_news@midwest.socialunions@sh.itjust.worksusa@lemmy.mlworkreform@lemmy.worldupliftingnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·1 month agoTeamsters voted for Trump. They can get Republicans to support them. https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/
minus-squareWraithGear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoTo be fair, on that topic, unions have no friends in politics, including democrats.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month ago Teamsters voted for Trump. The rank and file may have. They can get Republicans to support them. This is too irony-poisoned for me to interpret. This is what happens when socialists are purged from the labor movement. You end up with anti-communist unions that don’t develop class consciousness among the rank & file, and where the leadership is in partnership with the employers.
Teamsters voted for Trump. They can get Republicans to support them.
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/
To be fair, on that topic, unions have no friends in politics, including democrats.
The rank and file may have.
This is too irony-poisoned for me to interpret.
This is what happens when socialists are purged from the labor movement. You end up with anti-communist unions that don’t develop class consciousness among the rank & file, and where the leadership is in partnership with the employers.