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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.