https://xcancel.com/TeamsterSOB/status/1813233768137662564
The C-suite long ago sold out the United States, shuttering factories in the homeland and gutting American jobs, while using the profits to push diversity, equity, and inclusion and the religion of the trans flag.
They have forged trade deals that led directly to the hemorrhaging of 4 million good jobs to China.
But as O’Brien correctly observed Monday night, that isn’t the Republican Party’s true tradition. There was a time when Republicans knew that American strength depends squarely on American workers—and their way of life: family, neighborhood, church, union hall. Ronald Reagan knew it.
China is ripping us off, and strong tariffs must be maintained and expanded.
Teamsters blaming transgender people, “DEI”, and China for the suppression of the labor unions in America. Gives support to family, church, and Ronald Reagan.
He red the wrong red speech
Such innovation, syndicalism with nationalism.
No one had done that before
Unfortunate. Hopefully his speech at DNC will have something redeeming (idk if DNC accepted him yet, but he offered to go to both conventions).
And for all his attempts at pandering, he got a really muted response from the crowd.
This “pro-labor” Republican stuff has no constituency, that is why it got a muted response. They like unions for the aesthetic of the rough trade guy, but in real life union workers could be engineers, nurses, bellhops, etc. What Hawley is selling is 50s newsreel Americana, though this shit might not work this time around because too many people for which that registered as nostalgia have died.
The only people that this right wing pro labor crap works really well on is credulous economically left media people like Lee Fang and Red Scare, who are on board with unions but are uncomfortable with the left’s lack of racism.
All the fucking labor notes hacks in TDU and all the socialist orgs that didn’t condemn their shitty UPS contract should be ashamed of themselves.
Apologies for the late reply, this is the first chance I’ve gotten around to it.
During contract negotiations 97% of UPS Teamsters authorized a strike. This was widely lauded as an impressive show of militancy. Later only 86% of the 58% of eligible UPS Teamsters voted for the contract, or a little under half of the Teamsters at UPS. Rushing a contract vote and not engaging members in it is a regular tactic of union leadership that wants to reach a compromise and their ability to mobilize a strike vote shows that union officials were more than capable of reaching more members.
Shortly before the contract vote, A small group of Teamsters were organizing against it. They released this article in Cosmonaut and did an interview on Revolutionary Left Radio detailing extensively how many of the supposed victories in the contract were far from that. Employee tiers remained, the air conditioning concessions that were widely celebrated were overstated, and concessions had been made.
Shortly after the contract ratification Labor Notes, who loudly supported the TA before the vote, released this article detailing the many Teamsters that would have preferred a strike.
As detailed in the Cosmonaut article, communists, socialists and progressive labor widely supported the TA even after the actual rank and file Teamsters had overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking. Now we are seeing the opportunist reactionary labor aristocrat Shaun O’Brien that they all fell in line behind show his true colors.
The responsibility of socialists and any class struggle labor organizers was to tell UPS workers that while they are glad they got those raises and concessions, they could have got a lot more through militancy and membership-driven bargaining.
Idk, I believe in militancy and also want celebrate the work union members put in to get a good contract. I think it’s so easy to criticize unions not being militant enough that it comes across as we know what’s best for you and regardless of reality no one wants to follow people who tell them they know their best interests.
Ah shit here we go again
