Last major union yet to endorse in Harris-Trump showdown nears final decision

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the only union among the nation’s top 10 that hasn’t endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in her 2024 faceoff with former President Trump, could make an announcement later this week on whom they’re backing in the White House race.

“We are going to look at any and all options, and I can’t commit to what we’re going to do,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told reporters at the union’s national headquarters in the nation’s capital.

O’Brien spoke after he and other Teamsters leaders met behind closed doors with Harris on Monday for a roundtable discussion.

The vice president didn’t speak with reporters as she departed the Teamsters headquarters after making her pitch, as the Democrats’ presidential nominee works to maintain her party’s traditional high level of support from organized labor.

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O’Brien late last year announced the union’s first-ever interview process for their 2024 presidential endorsement and invited the major party candidates to make their cases.

The Teamsters met earlier this year with Trump and separately with President Biden, whom Harris succeeded atop the Democrats’ national ticket two months ago.

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O’Brien made history in July as he became the first Teamsters president to address a Republican National Convention.

But his speech also sparked controversy, as he drew the ire of some other top Teamsters leaders and some of the rank-and-file membership. Democrats didn’t invite O’Brien to address their convention last month in Chicago.

General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

O’Brien said on Monday that the Teamsters are finishing up their polling of the union’s membership ahead of an executive board meeting on Wednesday, and added that the results of the polling would be publicly released.

He said the endorsement is “going to come down to the rank and file members, the polling and also the discussion and deliberation of the general executive board.”

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