[Dahoser]

Empty threat from communist Trumka and they know it. The union leadership will always back the RATS. The rank and file are a different story.

[Hot Tabasco]

The rank and file are a different story.

I know a number of retired UAW employees who are staunch Trump supporters......

[dp0622]

Don’t know a blue collar union guy that didn’t vote for Trump.

Being the Head of the AFL only gives you political capital when people actually listen to you.

[kearnyirish2]

“Don’t take union workers’ support for granted”

He’s warning about the rank-and-file; they helped deliver most of the upper Midwest to Trump.

[ExTxMarine]

The rank and file are a different story.

I have several in-laws who are lifelong Teamster members. About half are retired, but still participate in the "union" stuff.

After their union told them they MUST vote for Obama (and most of them did), they regretted it! When the economy tanked and then kept tanking and then went into a long-term skid rated as the same value as a bucket of warm spit, they said NO MORE!

Most of them are truck drivers and they saw what NAFTA did to the US trucking industry - it wasn't pretty. Then add on Obama's new truck "safety" regulations that really put a stranglehold on one of the few blue-collar jobs where tough grit could make you wealthy and you got to own your own business. Obama's rules were NOT designed for the truck driver nor the small, mom-n-pop owner/operators...they were designed for the large, CORPORATE trucking businesses!

Everyone of them voted for Trump. I feel very confident that they will again. I have been married into that family for 32 years (although I have known them for another 4), politics was something that we never saw eye-to-eye, until they saw what Obama and the Democrats did to the economy and left it in a partial flat-line state, and called it the "new normal!"

[hardspunned]

Trumka, the full on communist, is loving the direction the democrat party is taking. I’m sure he counseled the candidates to quite being so honest about their socialist plans. If they want rank and file support the Dems need to get back to the lies they’ve used so effectively for decades.

[Obadiah]

What you said.