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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest labour unions in the United States, has said that it will not endorse any candidate in the upcoming US presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a statement on Wednesday, the influential union of about 1.3 million members said that it would not endorse either Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris or Republican former President Donald Trump.

\u201cThe Teamsters thank all candidates for meeting with members face-to-face during our unprecedented roundtables,\u201d Teamsters General President Sean O\u2019Brien said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move breaks with decades of precedent: The Teamsters have endorsed the Democratic candidate in every election since 2000, and the union has not declined to endorse a candidate since 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also comes as both the Democratic and Republican parties have been\u00a0courting organised labour<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the November 5 election, which is expected to be hard-fought between Trump and Harris.

The Teamsters said that polling of its members showed a preference for Trump over Harris by a margin of more than 25 percent, but no \u201cuniversal support\u201d for either candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign said that the polling shows that the \u201cvast majority\u201d of the group\u2019s members supported the ex-president and wanted to see him return to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to US media outlets, a spokesperson for Harris said the Democrat has won the support of Teamsters locals across the US, along with other labour unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Donald Trump says striking workers should be fired, Vice President Harris has literally walked the picket line and stood strong with organized labor for her entire career,\u201d Lauren Hitt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Vice President\u2019s strong union record is why Teamsters locals across the country have already endorsed her \u2014 alongside the overwhelming majority of organized labor.\u201d

Labour unions have been a traditional constituency of the Democratic Party in the US, with Republican overtures met primarily with scepticism as the party has historically taken a harsher line on workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most large US labour unions, such as the\u00a0United Auto Workers<\/a>\u00a0(UAW) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), have voiced their support for Harris ahead of the upcoming election.

O\u2019Brien \u2014 the Teamsters president \u2014 has been an exception to that trend, speaking at the Republican National Convention in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That decision elicited a mixed response from US labour experts, who were divided over whether it was a smart move taking a pro-labour message to a large audience or a bad one, given traditional GOP hostility to the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Teamsters also tried to get a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in August, but said that they were not granted one.

While the Teamsters have endorsed Democrats over the past two decades, the group has at times also supported Republican presidential candidates, including Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Reprinted from Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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