US TRANSPORT workers’ leader John Samuelson predicted today that Joe Biden will pull off a victory in the upcoming US presidential election. 

Mr Samuelson, who is international president of Transport Workers Union (TWU), represents 150,000 workers across the airline, railroad, transit, universities, utilities and services sectors.

Assessing the current president’s record, Mr Samuelson said: “Biden has done more for transport workers than any other president in history. And I think he will win in November.”

He labelled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump disgusting but admitted that the former TV show host “gains ground because, institutionally, the Democrats suck.

“They are a party of big-business elites and social liberals and do not represent blue-collar America,” he said.

Mr Samuelson emphasised how difficult it was for trade unionists to organise in the US especially in the South — but that his union was making progress. 

“We have developed a pro-worker programme, including protecting our jobs particularly from being replaced by AI,” he said. “However, when you organise in the South, the cops, government and politicians are in it together to break worker organisation.”