FenrirIII
Work Reformcross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29278337
A Teamster posted images of a fund raising letter they received from President Sean O'Brien on r/Union (warning: reddit link).
In the letter, Sean O'Brien claims that Trump is creating a new 'Worker First' republican party, and implores the reader to donate as much as they can to the Teamster 'TEAM Fund', which will be used to:
- Support Trump's 'Pro-Worker' initiatives, like 'strategic' tariffs
- Financially back incumbent 'pro-worker' republican candidates for the House and Senate
- Identify pro-labor legislatures in key states and support their campaigns
Sean then introduces the next part of the letter; a message from Josh Hawley, a Christian Nationalist and Trump loyalist state senator who fist pumped the Jan 6th rioters in support.
In the letter Hawley claims Trump has eliminated the "country club elites and business tycoons" from the republican party, as well as ending the "Woke DEI agenda".
If there was ever any doubt about O'Brien, he's certainly showing his true colors now, bending the knee to the fascists in power and even going so far as to fund raise for them.
The letter itself:
I was reading this and thinking it's not that bad; that this is an over-exaggeration. However, it then goes on to say that Trump is trying to "Make America Great Again" and includes Republican endorsements, and even a letter from one. It says nothing about what Democrats are doing, or others. Yeah, fuck that. If you want to be bipartisan, then fine. That's probably a good idea to get the best outcomes. This isn't bipartisan though! This is incredibly one sided and partisan —in favor of Republicans.
That’s been official for a while. The IUEC under their presidents leadership bullies out women and black peoples by committing collusionary crimes on them. Tactics like sexual assault and threats of lynching are very commonplace and used by union officials. The EEOC is toothless so this behavior continues even though our tax dollars prop up these apprenticeships. I think a lot of these male dominated segregated construction trades don’t actually believe in civil rights. I do think McCarthyism made the problem worse. I think some like the IBEW are actually changing. Unfortunately, I’ve lost any hope that this will change in our lifetime so these heavily subsidized paths to the middle class are blocked based on race/sex.
Why is every sentence a new paragraph? This is the kind of typesetting you use when you have to fill a certain number of pages and have run out of things to say. And what's up with the typewriter font?
Him speaking at the RNC was not in and of itself bad--i heard him justify it later and he made some good points, that there are a lot of exploited workers in the base who could stand to hear the benefits of unions from a union leader instead of just hearing Fox propaganda. But to look at the tax cuts, the benefit cuts, and the tariff outcomes and double down on Trump makes it abundantly clear where his loyalties lie--his own pockets, and maybe his own prejudices.
Even if you accept he Senator Hawley story at face value, he completely loses the plot here:
He's right though, the GOP is absolutely at an inflection point where the authoritarianism seemed to have leveled out to "evil nanny state" levels and is now ramping all the way up to full blown Nazi.
I lol'd. I GUFFAWED at that third paragraph.
Trump literally owns the country club for elites
He works at a golf club? Wow how humble
Holy shit that third paragraph is absolutely hilarious.
At this point I'm starting to wonder if they have something on him. Of course, it could just be garden-variety corruption.
Flight logs to Epstein pedo-Island contains a wide variety of actual, now living, human creatures. Raping children is not a foreign concept for conservatives.
Maybe. Just the same, not every union is a well run union. There's been bad ones over the years, but more good ones, I think.
Painters and Allied Trades was completely run over by leadership in Denver 25-35 years ago. I think they are all out of prison now
Reads like something I would write with a gun pointed at my head.
What did you do, Sean?
This is crazy. At best he himself has fallen for the propaganda. Gotta vote him out ASAP.
At best he realizes the average Teamster is the bedrock of MAGA and they'd rather leave the Teamsters than vote Dem.
What probably happened is he got a bribe.
What's with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible? The conservatives of pretty much every western country are liars, all of them. How stupid do you have to be to believe the word of people who lie so much it's basically their brand at this point.
What’s with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible?
I don't see that at all. He knows exactly what he's doing: Selling out the union for his own gain. It's not incompetence -- it's greed
What's with these top union people being so blatantly stupid, näive and gullible?
greed
The conservatives of pretty much every western country are liars, all of them.
don't forget greedy.
How stupid do you have to be to believe the word of people who lie so much it's basically their brand at this point.
so greedy they'll sell their children out for more.
This is not surprising given any previous interactions with teamsters management. I thought they were slimy and I was on the corporate side of the equation.
Also to be clear fuck corps, hurray unions.
Boston disowns that motherfucker
It's crazy that such a toxic political party intent on hurting as many people as possible will ever help anyone who works with them. The teamsters are being driven by a man that will steal their benefits, protections, and cut their pay permanently.
I knew he was nuts, but my god, that font choice! Did he type that on a 1920s typewriter?
Also he's a fucking scumbag.
That formatting. Ugh. I'm all for use of ~~bold~~, underline and italic so long as they're creative. Dude wouldn't even use italics because he thinks they aren't white enough ffs
teamsters have always been conservative leaning compared to other unions, police unions dont count as they arnt a true union.
Where's the mob when you need them
The mob was and is conservative.
The mob is currently behind the guy in the white house, at least they have been through all his businesses historically.
Well a mob.
The mob is the Sicilian mob but Donnie is in with the Russians.
Heavily involved in the Teamsters union and Trump’s businesses
