Naio posted:

I thought republicans were against unions?

After trade agreements that sent US union jobs to low wage countries, union members would rather have an union ambivalent republican over a wealth (jobs) sharing dem:

Union Leaders for Trump

Feeling betrayed by Democrats, blue-collar trade unions throw their support to a Republican president.

America’s blue-collar unions just had their best week in years. On his first Monday as president, Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from what union leaders considered a jobs-killing trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Later in the week, labor honchos met in the White House with Trump to discuss his plans for a massive infrastructure-building program that will likely employ tens of thousands of workers. Trump also signed orders that potentially revived the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines—two projects that trade unions have heavily backed but that the Obama administration had refused to approve.

The union leaders, whose membership once constituted the core of the Democratic Party, were effusive in their praise of a president who knows their business perhaps better than anyone who’s ever held the office. “We believe that President Trump really is going to put America first,” said Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, after the White House meeting.

https://www.city-journal.org/h...ers-trump-14992.html