J.D. Vance says he is pro-worker. Here’s what he really believes

While he has paid lip service to organized labor—and even made an appearance on a picket line—his record and rhetoric on labor issues paints a very different picture.

When Teamsters president Sean O’Brien addressed the Republican National Convention yesterday, it was the first time a leader of the union—of any union, in fact—had taken the stage at the RNC. “President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention and that’s unprecedented,” he said in his speech, which was sharply critical of big business and corporate America.