(cw transphobia) Teamsters President endorses "Pro-labor Conservativism"
(cw transphobia) Teamsters President endorses "Pro-labor Conservativism"
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.
Lmao "there was a time when America appreciated unions: Reagan"
Jesus christ teamsters time to start looking for a new union pres
this guy literally was supposed to be the new guy. he was intensely critical of the last guy (hoffa's kid, presided over a long period of stagnation and decline) and under him they secured a massive UPS contract
That contract was way less than they could have got. All the American lefties celebrating it were either unfamiliar with how you win good contracts or understood but wanted to say, "good job rah rah see socialists support you".
I don't think a single "major" left org provided critical support, only uncritical.
This is the kind of outcome to expect from union reform campaigns that center vague ideas of tossing out corrupt people or being "democratic". Reform needs to center class struggle or most of the time you'll just get a new guard with basically the same problems. That's what socialist parties have in the past, it worked well.
He didn't say anything like that. This is just stuff from the Republixan writing the article.
Reagan? The man who is famous for singlehandedly crushing the air traffic controllers' union during his first year in office and accelerating the nationwide decline of unions? How can a union president endorse this shit with a straight face?
How can a union president endorse this shit with a straight face?
Professional organizers are the type of labor aristocrat most likely to be class traitors tbh.
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Money helps
How can a union president endorse this shit with a straight face?
It's very hard to make a man understand something his paycheck depends on him not understanding.
He didn't. The text is from an article.
China is ripping us off
American capitalists gave it to them, for free. Reagan and others allowed it to happen. It was a gift.
And its not like America lost everything. China is giving America 'free' shit in exchange for U.S. Dollars.
And Republicans are going to enact tariffs on Chinese goods while not improving domestic capacity. Atleast with Democrats one could claim they may give tax credits on domestic EVs or whatever (not enough of course). But Republicans love fossil fuels and think EVs are soy, there is zero reason for them to do anything.
Of 1.3 million members, I wonder how many teamsters are currently employed moving shit from shipping ports from China to wherever the fuck wholesaler in America it’s going?
Unions cozying up to fascists has famously worked very well… for the fascists.
while using the profits to push diversity, equity, and inclusion and the religion of the trans flag.
I guess it would have been fine if it wasn't supposedly spent on big woke.
Lol this country is fuckin cooked
Probably should have guessed the old union guy is a fuck but i liked this guy. Oh well, into the trash
Teamster's for a Democratic Union have some explaining to do
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I told you dog, I warned you about the western unions
This is literally fascism
Fascism is not pro-labor. In fact, it’s primary function is crushing labor
Fascism is not pro-labor. In fact, it’s primary function is crushing labor
"Pro-labor conservatism" is also not pro-labor. Just as National Socialism was not socialism. Fascism takes on the aesthetic of being pro-labor while doing actions that are anti-labor. Before creating Fascism, Mussolini was a member of the Italian socialist party and actively involved with Italian labor unions. One of the core principles of fascism is class collaboration. Mussolini inverted class conflict to create the idea that working class people and capitalists benefit from working together and actually aren't in conflict. Fascism absolutely tries to present itself as being pro-labor.
If you saw the phrase "pro-labor conservatism" and thought they it's actually going to be pro-labor while also blaming transgender people, electric vehicles, DEI, and China, then you have some seriously flawed analysis.
Having fash bootlicking "labour unions"? First time?
The OG official fascism in Italy thrived on turning unions to their cause. They specifically targeted unions as a focus for struggle: co-opt first and if that fails (usually because the union is radical left), destroy them.
Rabidly pro trans CEOs have infiltrated the highest echelons of American empire. Every day the CEO of my company calls me wanting to talk “next steps” on “the big plan”
We have the best Communist trans CEOs, folks.
“your surplus value isn’t being taken by the capitalist owner class, they barely make enough to keep a yacht over their heads. it’s all going to woke dei trans people. vote the GQP in power and i pinky swear that money will go back into your pockets and not into a second, bigger yacht that carrys the first one around”
GQP
I had a long comment typed out but it doesn't matter. All I can say is lol. Lmao, even.
Demanding the egg1918 analysis ft. yellow Parenti
I am kinda not even that mad for them joining the winning team. I just don't see what they could possibly get out of it.
Like, the DNC isn't gonna treat them any better so they might as well shop around I just can't picture them getting anything for this.
They get to blame minorities I guess.
Good to see the feds hard work in dividing labor along color lines is still paying off. I would hate to think my tax money was bing wasted on a shitty psyop.
Not like a large number of their members weren’t already doing that
I remember this bozo. he's been hit with discrimination charges before. Sanders actually had him called before a senate hearing and he started arguing with a senate republican (mullin i think) and they started acting like 12 year olds and challenging each other to a fight.
Also class collaborationist labor unions in the USA have been the norm since Taft Hartley at least
I honestly have to say I hope he meets Jimmy Hoffa
I don't understand this. Is there anyone decent in Teamsters at this point? Should we organize against this union? Why are these people so racist and transphobic? I don't get why humans can't just leave each other alone?
FRSO organizes Teamsters (though they are pretty small). There are good Teamsters. Most Teamsters are incoherent liberals like everyone else and should be a focus of socislist agitation. Logistics unions are the most strategic ones to target given how the Imperialist economy operates.
Teamsters have had openly reactionary and anti-socialist sentiments for decades. Condescending or incompetent campaigns targeting them backfire and make this worse. We should be agitating from the bottom up via class struggle and political education.
Lots of cadre from various parties are in the teamsters. From what I understand, this guy is pretty well liked and does his job well.
I guess the Democrats told him he can't speak at their convention so why not twist the knife
God I hate the democrats
I was on bereavement leave at the IRA and missed a few, will hexbear be splitting into dino tankies or mecha tankies?Neither, it's another case of "sit back and watch the fireworks"
Weretankies or Vamptankies. Twilight is gonna make a comeback.
This is one of those speeches that is so full of dumb shit I mentally blue-screen. It actively takes more effort to go out of your way to be this bigoted .
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.
I thought UPS workers liked their contract.
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.
Ah shit here we go again
Such innovation, syndicalism with nationalism.
No one had done that before
He red the wrong red speech
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.
once again the Read Settlers crowd get another W. we gotta chance to win the championship with the year we're having.
ALU just affiliated with them lmao