{"id":1705,"date":"2024-01-18T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-slap-in-the-face-progressive-anger-as-teamsters-union-chief-meets-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:05:15","slug":"a-slap-in-the-face-progressive-anger-as-teamsters-union-chief-meets-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-slap-in-the-face-progressive-anger-as-teamsters-union-chief-meets-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A slap in the face\u2019: progressive anger as Teamsters union chief meets Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftwing members of 1.3m-strong labor union unhappy with Sean O\u2019Brien for private meeting with Republican frontrunner<\/p>\n<p>In an unexpected political convergence, Sean O\u2019Brien, the president of the Teamsters union, announced he had met privately with Donald Trump \u2013 raising questions about who the Teamsters will endorse in 2024 and drawing anger from the union\u2019s progressive members.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came amid efforts by Joe Biden and the thinning field of Republican challengers, led by Trump, to appeal to workers and labor organizations. And it followed three years of declarations from Biden and his administration that it would deliver to workers the most pro-union presidency in US history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/18\/teamsters-union-chief-trump-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftwing members of 1.3m-strong labor union unhappy with Sean O\u2019Brien for private meeting with Republican frontrunner In an unexpected political convergence, Sean O\u2019Brien, the president of the Teamsters union, announced he had met privately with Donald Trump \u2013 raising questions about who the Teamsters will endorse in 2024 and drawing anger from the union\u2019s progressive &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018A slap in the face\u2019: progressive anger as Teamsters union chief meets Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-slap-in-the-face-progressive-anger-as-teamsters-union-chief-meets-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018A slap in the face\u2019: progressive anger as Teamsters union chief meets Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}