Union leaders see no evidence of migration to Donald Trump

[RandySF]

Local union leaders across the Rust Belt are voicing confidence that their members will stick with Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the race for the White House.

Trump has courted organized labor aggressively, staking out hard-line positions against free trade and immigration that resonated with blue-collar voters in the GOP primary.

Yet in interviews with The Hill, 58 local chapter leaders representing 19 unions in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin said they believe their members are overwhelmingly backing Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The leaders represent local chapters with membership ranging from dozens to more than 1,000.

While many of their members have reservations about Clinton, the union leaders don’t see signs of a groundswell toward Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

“There’s nothing about Donald Trump that entices us when it comes to the construction industry,” said John J. Dougherty, business manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, a local branch of North America’s Building Trades Unions.


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/283520-union-leaders-see-no-evidence-of-migration-to-donald-trump

[tonyt53]

1. It's like this, beginning with Reagan, every GOP prez has led an attack on organized labor

Every damned on of them. In the construction trades, with every GOP pres, there has been a steep decline in available work because the economy has sank. This is also the reason why several of the top Hillary campaign contributors are building trades unions. Yeah, some people will vote for Trump because they are thinking with that small part of their brain that controls racism and their need to have as many guns as possible, but most will think with their pockets.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. the idea of Trump+Unions is INSANE on it's face! He wants to ELIMINATE minimum wage

And said Americans don't work hard enough!

Yeah, NO. Unions and members, aside from a very few whackos, will NOT go to Trump.