WTF teamsters?!

[redqueen]

Link to tweet

BREAKING: The Teamsters just gave $45,000 to the RNC.

This is like the mouse hiring his own exterminator.

There is no greater threat to organized labor than the Republican Party and their corporate donors.

Hell, they want to get rid of the National Labor Relations Board! 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Marcus IM]

1. Wow. That would be like Cubans in Cuba voting for capitalism

[drmeow]

2. They may be hoping to influence them

to change. I suspect it is an exercise in futility.

[Maraya1969]

3. Could they be trying to get the rnc on their side? So in the future they might vote for them? idk

[walkingman]

4. They love his bigotry. Teamsters leadership has been corrupt for decades.

[KPN]

6. ???

Are you conflating UAW with Teamsters? Shawn Fain with Sean O'Brien?

[brush]

9. You are right. My huge mistake. I will delete.

[orthoclad]

7. Teamsters had a reputation for

"sweetheart contracts".

They're "organized", all right.

[Caliman73]

8. Waste of money in my opinion. Possibly a threat toward the Democratic Party?

I agree with other respondents that any Labor organization giving to Conservatives is basically like a pro-choice organization donating to the Family Research Council. They will not get anything except lipservice (if that) from Conservatives.

That said, it could be, like I said, a way to tell Democrats that they need to court the Teamsters more. Again, I don't see this as particularly smart, given that President Biden actually was the first President to stand on a picket line while Trump hired fucking actors to impersonate Union members at a staged rally.

If I were a Teamster, I would be kinda pissed at leadership right now. I am with SEIU, and if anyone in my organization donated to Conservatives, I'd be calling for them to step down.