• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      11 hours ago

      Thank you @realDonaldTrump for putting American workers first by nominating Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for US Labor Secretary. Nearly a year ago, you joined us for a @Teamsters roundtable and pledged to listen to workers and find common ground to protect and respect labor in America. You put words into action. Now let’s grow wages and improve working conditions nationwide. Congratulations to @LChavezDeRemer on your nomination! North America’s strongest union is ready to work with you every step of the way to expand good union jobs and rebuild our nation’s middle class. Let’s get to work! #TeamsterStrong

      https://x.com/TeamsterSOB/status/1860118006820479289?lang=en&mx=2

      What an asshole.

      Edit: This is from a couple months ago, I’m not trying to make it sound like O’Brien is still licking Trump’s nethers as we speak. Although, it wouldn’t surprise me.

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          The article talks about how union leadership has gotten so soft and corrupt that they squandered a lot of what they could have been accomplishing for the last four years, with the hardened rank-and-file members often clamoring to try to get more to happen, and the leaders slow-walking everything, apparently for reasons of laziness.

          O’Brien is quite a bit worse than the norm, but he’s also apparently not some weird singular exception. He just made himself more visible by allying himself with Trump.