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The Michigan Teamsters have endorsed Kamala Harris for president after the international balked at backing any candidate.
In a Facebook posting the local Teamsters wrote:
Michigan Teamsters President Kevin Moore and the Executive Board, on behalf of 245,000 active and retired Teamsters, enthusiastically endorse the Harris-Walz campaign and all down-ballot Democratic candidates in the state of Michigan.
We strongly support their continued commitment to the issues that matter most to working families and our nation's middle class. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz have consistently demonstrated their dedication to championing the labor movement, safeguarding social security, and ensuring access to quality healthcare for all Americans.
Other Teamster locals have also endorsed Harris including in Wisconsin, Kentucky, California and Nevada.
In a press release on Wednesday, the international wrote:
The General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday elected not to endorse any candidate for U.S. President.
After reviewing six months of nationwide member polling and wrapping up nearly a year of rank-and-file roundtable interviews with all major candidates for the presidency, the union was left with few commitments on top Teamsters issues from either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris—and found no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee.
In data publicly released earlier in the day, President Joe Biden won the support of Teamsters voting in straw polls at local unions between April-July prior to his exit from the race. But in independent electronic and phone polling from July-September, a majority of voting members twice selected Trump for a possible Teamsters endorsement over Harris.
