Labor leaders are reportedly distancing themselves from President Joe Biden and hoping for another Democratic candidate to replace him, while former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), are aggressively seeking support from union members who are increasingly drifting away from the upper-middle-class leftism of the Democratic Party.
On Friday, leaders of the Washington State Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 3000 publicly called on Biden to give up his reelection bid.
“If President Biden continues to demonstrate an inability to campaign effectively and is defeated in November, the progress workers have made would be immediately put at risk in a second Trump administration,” the union leader said. I have written In a letter to Washington’s congressional delegation:
Unions cannot stand by and watch while workers are under attack. Workers need leaders who can effectively communicate a strong message between now and November, and then deliver on that vision over the next four years. I call on President Biden to pass the baton to the next generation. While his work alongside workers is admirable, the time has come for him to retire. Please have dignity and campaign as hard as we can for alternative candidates, otherwise the stakes are too high. [Emphasis added]
I urge my Washington State Congressional delegation to call on President Joe Biden to step down. For a new generation of leadership. [Emphasis added]
at the same time, The New York Times report Both Sean Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, and Sara Nelson, president of the Union of Flight Attendants, expressed concerns about Biden’s candidacy.
Similarly, Teamsters Chairman Sean M. O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention, a historic moment for the Republican Party, in which he said the union was eager to work with Republicans like Trump and Vance, who are open to the plight of their members.
“President Trump has the courage to open the door to the Republican National Convention, which is unprecedented,” O’Brien said. “No other candidate in this race would have invited the Teamsters to this venue.”
O’Brien then stressed that he has not yet been invited to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and that the union has not endorsed him in the presidential election.
Trump and Vance are aggressively seeking support from the country’s working and middle classes, including union members and families in historically Democratic areas who are being disenfranchised by the left.
“Today, our cities are overrun with illegal immigrants. Americans are being locked out of the workforce. Their jobs are being taken away,” Trump said. Said In a speech at the Republican National Convention, he said, “But you know who’s taking those jobs, those jobs that are being created? 107 percent of those jobs are being taken by illegal immigrants…. They’re also taking jobs from unions. Unions are suffering because of that.”
An ardent populist nationalist, Vance also appealed to union members in his speech at the Republican National Convention.
“We need leaders who don’t line their pockets in big business, but who answer to workers, union and non-union alike,” Vance said. “Leaders who won’t bow to multinational corporations, but who will stand up for American companies and American industries.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter. here.
