President Biden met with Teamsters leaders and rank-and-file union members Tuesday at the union’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and asserted his support for the Teamsters in the 2024 election.
The president spent nearly an hour in a closed-door meeting with Teamsters officials. The union’s president, Sean O’Brien, later said he did not expect the union to make an endorsement in the near future and would wait until closer to the election.
O’Brien praised Biden’s work on unions in an interview on Fox News.
“President Biden has taken very strong stances on a number of issues. All the other candidates seem to be pro-union,” O’Brien told Neil Cavuto. “But President Biden has proven that he has done a lot of work on behalf of unions. And no decisions have been made. They won’t be made in the near future. We still have work to do. There’s a lot of due diligence.”
“And more importantly, 1.3 million members will be participating in this process,” O’Brien continued. “Voting is currently taking place. And we intend to have town halls in every local union to ensure that this decision we make is in the best interests of our members and their families.”
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Teamsters officials have so far met with former President Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, as well as third-party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West.
Biden has frequently boasted that he is the most pro-union president in history, often praising unions as forming the backbone of the U.S. economy. Biden walked the picket line with striking members of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) in September, and the group endorsed him earlier this year.
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