'Failure of Leadership': Hoffa Rips O'Brien Over Teamsters' Snub of Harris | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Three days after O'Brien -- in an unusual step for a union leader -- spoke at the Republican National Convention to urge the GOP to be nicer to labor, Trump kicked unions in the teeth in his acceptance speech by mocking the United Auto Workers.
43% : Also, Teamster leaders evidently also failed to explain to rank-and-file members that Harris has fought for policy after policy strongly backed by the Teamsters and other unions, including the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which is the labor movement's No. 1 legislative priority and would make it considerably easier for the Teamsters and other unions to organize.
40% : Trump recently launched a missile at organized labor's heart by praising the idea of firing striking workers (even though that is illegal under federal law).
34% : "On Wednesday, as Common Dreams reported, the Teamsters announced they would withhold an endorsement after polling of its members showed that neither Harris nor Trump had overwhelming support.
34% : "What stood out to Greenhouse about the nature of the Teamsters' internal polling, which did show broad support for Trump, comes back around to what Hoffa termed a "failure of leadership" when it comes to O'Brien.
29% : As veteran labor reporter Steven Greenhouse wrote this week for Slate:Trump is an unarguably anti-union candidate.
24% : Harris, unlike Trump, also supports increasing the pathetically low $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage to at least $15.
20% : Trump opposes the PRO Act.
8% : If Trump ultimately wins, Greenhouse said, the snub of Harris may be something O'Brien and the Teamsters "end up regretting because a second Trump administration will probably be even more of a danger to unions (and democracy) than the first one."
3% : He wrote:That internal survey showing so many Teamsters backing Trump highlighted something else: The union's leadership must have done a dreadful job informing and educating rank-and-file members about how hugely anti-union Trump is and how aggressively anti-union and anti-worker Trump's first administration was (and appointees were).

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