Teamsters union boss Sean O’Brien has a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. Democrats are touting O’Brien’s speaking role as evidence that the Republican Party is embracing Big Labor’s anti-worker policies.
Democrats have it completely backwards. Rank-and-file union workers are voting Republican because of former President Donald Trump’s worker-freedom agenda, not because Republicans are embracing Big Labor’s anti-worker agenda.
While Trump was making life better for American workers as president, O’Brien was spending heavily to undermine his worker-freedom agenda. A new report from the Center for Union Facts, first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, shows that the Teamsters spent $9 million on politics between 2019 and 2022.
Of that, a staggering 99% funded Democrat-aligned groups and anti-Trump media outlets. More than $2.6 million in…
