Hasanabi Interviews Sean O'Brien of the Teamsters

[@Polit_Burro]

Too bad the Teamsters are the most corrupt, piratical, anti-social, union-raiding rat union since the Employers' waterfront union of the 1920s. Teamos have a long and sordid history of stabbing other unions in the back in order to save their own members' jobs. This likely has something to do with the meagre strike benefits this union offers its members (and that itself is a subject for investigation and inquiry), but for whatever reason, Teamsters are notorious in labor circles for their violations of basic rules and customs of union solidarity.

[@redcyberdragon29]

You mean like when they wouldn’t cross WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines out of solidarity? An imperfect union is still better than no union. And when i see someone hyper focusing on stuff like this, I can’t help but feel it undermines the labor cause.

[@Polit_Burro]

@@redcyberdragon29 No, I mean like the times they crossed picket lines after settling their own affairs, while leaving their co-unionists to starve. Try asking Scab O'Brien why his union bureaucrats shut down the strike at Borg-Warner over the heads of striking workers, why dont you? It's not "Hyperfocusing" when the scab union has such a long and sorded history of scabbery against other unions, let alone its own hapless members.

[@Polit_Burro]

@@redcyberdragon29 I mean like the one in 2024: Where the Teamos settled with management at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, while journalists, other unions remained out in the cold. Stop defending labor rats.