if Biden hadn't been the most union friendly politician since FDR we might be able to argue this. Biden specifically bailed out the teamsters pensions, and the national chapter non-endorsed based on the leaders' personal transphobia.

i don't think the left has remotely grappled with what the popular failure of full employment combined with the specific failures by advocacy groups and unions to deliver votes for their demands means going forward.

Also his dislike of black people.

Didn’t know about that. Frank to me is a belles-lettres political writer. (So is Jeet.) They write about politics unbothered by numbers & w little understanding of or interest in the structural, legal, economic, or demographic realities of US politics. It’s all witless moralizing & purity trolling

IBT has always had race problems. They've had to spend significant sums over the years contractually defending (As they must) their own guys' discrimination.

Oh, I thought you were referring to Frank. Late 80’s a Teamsters local at the Detroit Newspapers was mostly Polish & Italian, mostly from 6-8 extended families. They were pressured to bring in more Black members, became about 20% black, mostly from 2-3 extended families