United Autoworkers Union endorses Harris for president

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One of the largest labor unions in the nation today endorsed Harris for president. UAW was formed in the 1930s and has over a million members today, adding a significant boost to the Harris campaign.

UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement that the union’s “job” in this year’s election was to defeat Trump. The union has more than a million active and retired members with a strong base in what the Democrats call the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect Kamala Harris who will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed,” Fain said.

Unions normally lean to the left, but these last couple of cycles they have particularly gone that way, after the Trump tax cuts for the rich, and his unwillingness to help the worker families across the nation. To best, and most succinctly explain why the unions, and the everyday workers are voting Harris, I will quote Pete Buttigieg from this week's appearance on John Stewart:

“Look, I’m under no illusions that elections are just a policy exercise… But if your party has been systematically against unions, against a higher minimum wage, against things like paid family leave, against overtime, then just because you found Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock and put them on stage doesn’t make you a friend of the working class.”

a reply to: Mahogani

The fallacy is that unions represent the working class.

The working class already knows this though.

a reply to: Mahogani

Breaking!

Union endorses socialist!

In other news: water is wet.

a reply to: Mahogani

Interesting. How many of those "over a million members" will actually vote for Harris?

He is not the one that just backed Trump afterthe assassination, is it?

I think I recall it was the Teamsters head said the Union is not beholden to the Dems who sold them out, he was voting MAGA!
Teamsters Leader speaks at RNC

The UAW always endorses Democrats , this is no big deal . The rank and file union members support is probably 50 - 50 a reply to: Mahogani

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: Mahogani

Interesting. How many of those "over a million members" will actually vote for Harris?

With the backing of the union that pays their bills, their kids' braces and puts the food on the table... probably many. This union has fought for them for almost a century. They're happy with it.

And while I can't give you an exact number, because no one can, we just have to wait and see -- I can say one thing with certainty -- more of them will vote for her today than they would have yesterday, before the endorsement.

The Union Corp upper echelon speaks!!

The rank and file Member voters will vote 55% Trump. Just watch because they are watching the Democrat price/cost gouging !! 😀


Union Membership Plunging under Biden! 😃

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: Mahogani

Interesting. How many of those "over a million members" will actually vote for Harris?

And while I can't give you an exact number, because no one can,

Why can't anyone know this number (with in reason) shouldn't union leaders be polling their members before deciding who they support? How else do they know who they support?

These endorsements aren't decided in smoky back rooms are they?

The same UAW that forced most of their jobs out of country, by striking for absurd benefits packages. (they were absurd because I want to say it was GM starts every year a billion dollars in the red because of the UAW)

not exactly a ringing endorsement for anyone not a "made man" in the union.

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: Mahogani

Interesting. How many of those "over a million members" will actually vote for Harris?

With the backing of the union that pays their bills, their kids' braces and puts the food on the table... probably many. This union has fought for them for almost a century. They're happy with it.

And while I can't give you an exact number, because no one can, we just have to wait and see -- I can say one thing with certainty -- more of them will vote for her today than they would have yesterday, before the endorsement.

The union doesn't pay any of those things.

Union leadership always endorses the Democrats.

The rank and file rarely does.

a reply to: Mahogani

My dad was in a union for years.
He always barked back when they tried to tell him who to vote.

a reply to: Mahogani

*yawn*

Unions wanting Marxism.

Shocked face

originally posted by: Justoneman
He is not the one that just backed Trump afterthe assassination, is it?

I think I recall it was the Teamsters head said the Union is not beholden to the Dems who sold them out, he was voting MAGA!
Teamsters Leader speaks at RNC

I think workers are smart enough to know which party was in office when thousands of lay-oofs happened recently, and they've probably read how devistateing AI advancements are going to be to their employment.
Throw in the push to over-tax those who supply the jons for workeres causing companies to out-source to other countries and I bet a lot of them are feeling their high union dues are giving fewer and fewer benefits or job security.

You can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time, but a lot of those people have finally realised just how badly they were fooled/hoodwinked.

Is this really a surprise or even news?

Historically, it has been a bit more than "the last couple of cycles" that the UAW has leaned left. The last time the UAW endorsed a Republican was 1956. It was President Eisenhower. On top of that, they endorsed Biden in January (link) and called Trump a "scab." I mean, who did you think they were going to endorse? Now, if they endorsed a Republican, that would be a breaking story.

I do understand that this is the election forum, but it honestly looks like you are doing little more than campaigning for your chosen candidate with this post: a nice photo, a feel-good quote from the UAW, you even bring in an outside quote from a completely different story to help hammer home your point, and you also use that quote to insult the other side.

To summarize: I don't really consider this post to be news, more of a nice, succinct, campaign ad.

a reply to: Mahogani

Could be as simple as the automakers being fully invested in EV cars and tech, and they most likely see Trump becoming President (I'm still not convinced, and I REFUSE to get excited early) and going back to "drill baby drill" like we should have been all along!

They stand to lose which will translate over to layoffs and firings.

The EVs are piling up at dealerships and they may feel another progressive 4 years might allow the EV market to finally catch on.

Still don't know HOW people are affording these $60-80,000 cars and trucks. Something big is going to snap and unfortunately, the first to go are the ones peddling the bike.

Eh, pretty soon, robots and AI will see these people looking elsewhere for work anyway.

a reply to: Mahogani

A union endorse a democrat, NO WAY!

Unions are rooted in Cesar Chavez communism though. Except The Fraternal Order of Police, they have endorsed Trump last two times. So they don't count as a bad union in this thread because they endorsed Trump. And they are first responders. So no one calls them communists.

They usually announce their endorsement in September.

Harris also has The IAM via Joe. That's the union a lot of your DoD defense contractors are in. Like GE, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop. Also has workers at Harley Davidson and many major airlines, like Southwest and United. Those damn Democrat endorsing engineers and material handlers. Commies, ALL OF THEM!

a reply to: Degradation33

Lets take a little logic stroll.

How many decades have unions supported leftists?

Forever.


How has leftists benefited unions?

Never.

But they keep voting for the leftists because they promise the same damned things I've been hearing since the 70's.

The war on crime, the war on homelessness, the war on drugs. . . .

Left and right talk about the "war" but they never offer a solution because they won't have anything to run on next election season.

So when we look at unions endorsing Klamalla, what are they going to get paid?

Because it sure as hell isn;t going to benefit us.

originally posted by: RazorV66

originally posted by: Mahogani

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: Mahogani

Interesting. How many of those "over a million members" will actually vote for Harris?

With the backing of the union that pays their bills, their kids' braces and puts the food on the table... probably many. This union has fought for them for almost a century. They're happy with it.

And while I can't give you an exact number, because no one can, we just have to wait and see -- I can say one thing with certainty -- more of them will vote for her today than they would have yesterday, before the endorsement.

The union doesn't pay any of those things.

Union leadership always endorses the Democrats.

The rank and file rarely does.

Simply because Unions are a rather excellent way to launder/squander money for the Democrats.

Labor unions are massive funders of the Democratic Party as well as left-leaning political advocacy. From 2010 to 2018, union officials sent more than $1.6 billion in member dues to hundreds of liberal advocacy groups aligned with the Democratic Party—without prior member approval. That accounts for 99 percent of the union money going toward political advocacy during that time period.

According to Open Secrets, labor unions spent over $50 million on politics in 2022 alone – the vast majority of that money went to Democrats.

This spending does not align with the political ideologies of actual union members. According to 2023 polling data from Morning Consult, 51 percent of labor union members identified as a Democrat. In fact, the share of U.S. union members who identify as liberal was just 36 percent. Another 28 percent identified as being in the center of the ideological spectrum.

Want to see what Unions spend on Democrats?

Spending Linky

So at the end of the day, all I see is Union socialist leaders backing Democratic socialists while harming their own membership in the long-term.

Nothing new here.

I'm union and paid way to much for what I actually do....SAG/AFTRA