Reply #6: In the past and even more recently, certain unions supported the Republican Party. [View All]

[pnorman]

For the most part, they were also the most corrupt and despotic ones. This was implicit in Samuel Gompers style of "business unionism", but largely confined to the Building Trades. Until the end of the Twenties, even John L. Lewis was a staunch Republican. A little more recently, knee-jerk "anti-communism" brought some union leaders under the sway of the Republican Party. "Business unionism" made "Nixon Republicans" of a few union leaders. In 1980, one of. the few unions to endorse Reagan was the Air Traffic Union! Until he suddenly "got religion", Jimmy Hoffa jr. was a supporter of Bush43. In Venezuela, the corrupt head of the oilworkers union was part of the coup against Chavez.

Racism & xenophobia has always had a strong appeal to a certain portion of this country, and union members aren't always immune to that!