All posts tagged "Union"

Fraudsters stole more than $25,000 from the campaign of a prominent Republican congressional candidate in Texas — the latest in an epidemic of political campaign thefts, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal campaign records.

The campaign for Scott Armey, a Republican U.S. House candidate for Texas' 26th Congressional District, lost $25,013 through a “fraudulent transaction," according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The fraudulent transaction took place on Feb. 9 and involved “media placement” from political media firm SRCP Media, the FEC filing indicated.
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Trump is courting the Teamsters for their prized endorsement, but an exec with the union whose members run 1.3 million deep says the former president can't erase his past and therefore he should save his breath.

"I would say zero," John Palmer, vice president at-large of the Teamsters, said in a Wednesday interview on CNN. "I don't believe he does have a chance."

Palmer skipped a Wednesday roundtable powwow with former President Donald Trump and Teamsters Union brass in Washington where Trump made his best pitch to blue-collar workers that helped him march by Hillary Clinton in 2016 and will be a focal part in key battleground states like Wisconsin and Michigan to determine what happens come November....

Donald Trump has claimed to be greeting union members at his speech on Wednesday, but those with union signs who were approached reportedly admitted to not being members at all.

Trump held an address at an auto parts plant in Clinton Township, Michigan, on Wednesday night, although he received criticism from workers due to the fact that the plant in question is not unionized.

The Detroit News was present at the event, and reported on Trump saying that the UAW negotiations "don't mean as much as you think."...

The UAW's lead negotiator in contract talks with General Motors reportedly has some harsh words for Donald Trump.

Trump, who is doing a speech in front of auto workers Wednesday, is a "pompous (expletive)" visiting a non-union shop for his photo op, according to UAW Vice President for General Motors Mike Booth.

That's according to a new report from Detroit Free Press, which spoke with Booth and said he issued "a scathing assessment of former President Donald Trump hours before Trump was due to speak in Detroit."...

Posturing as a friend and ally of the working class, former President Donald Trump is planning to travel to Detroit next week amid the historic United Auto Workers strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis.

But during his four years in power, Trump took an openly hostile stance toward workers, stacking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with anti-union officials, gutting Labor Department regulations aimed at protecting workers' wages and benefits, and nominating Supreme Court justices and agency heads with long histories of siding with companies over employees—all while delivering huge tax cuts to the rich and big corporations, including major automakers.

"At every turn, Donald Trump and his appointees have made increasing the power of corporations over working people their top priority," the Communications Workers of America wrote while the former president was still in office. "Trump has encouraged freeloaders, made it more difficult to enforce collective bargaining agreements, silenced workers, and restricted the freedom to join unions."...

In a Tuesday, September 19 op-ed published by The New Yorker, longtime staff writer and columnist John Cassidy argues ex-President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers' claim of supporting the United Auto Workers (UAW) is laughable.

"What about Trump and Pence and the rest of the Republican U.A.W. stalwarts?" Cassidy writes. "So far, they have been conspicuously absent."

He notes that this week, UAW President Shawn Fain said, "Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers."...