US News Metro Long Island Politics

Sports NFL MLB Olympics NBA NHL College Football College Basketball WNBA

Business Personal Finance

Entertainment TV Movies Music Celebrities Awards Theater

Lifestyle Weird But True Sex & Relationships Viral Trends Human Interest Parenting Fashion & Beauty Food & Drink Travel

Health Wellness Fitness Health Care Medicine Men’s Health Women’s Health Mental Health Nutrition

Science Space Environment Wildlife Archaeology

Today’s Paper Covers Columnists Horoscopes Crosswords & Games Sports Odds Podcasts Careers

Email Newsletters Official Store Home Delivery Tips

Switch between CA and NY editions here.

GOP’s fatal attraction to unions is the start of a bad romance

The strangest flirtation in Washington is the ongoing courtship between a subset of Republicans and the Teamsters union.

It could also be among the most economically destructive.

This May Day-November relationship is built around mutual neediness: Union membership is trending down.

Only 6% of today’s private-sector workers belong to a labor union, down from 10% in the mid-1990s.

Some DC Republicans, most notably Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, reckon that if they tilt federal labor rules even further in the Teamsters’ and other unions’ favor to help them make up those losses, the unions will be moved beyond words and help the party win more elections.

Hawley in particular sees overlap in the Teamsters’ interests — particularly their ongoing crusade against self-driving cars — and his personal brew of grievance-tinged nationalism that broadly treats automation as a threat against the American worker.

NYC Council push to crush package-delivery contractors is another progressive bid to turn back the clock

Amazon contractors clash with Teamsters at raucous NYC Council hearing on controversial delivery legislation

California Teamsters threatened woman to join union or lose job: complaint

The two sides consummated the romance in 2024, when Teamsters head Sean O’Brien spoke at the GOP’s national convention and the union steered a nominal amount of campaign cash to a couple dozen Republican........

© New York Post