Literal slavers don’t like workers having rights? Who woulda fucking thunk.

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      I’d honestly love to see some journalism or polling on the Teamsters members or Sean O’Brien these days. Are they like, “whoops! I thought he was pro-union,” or are they still trying to rationalize this.

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        They will rationalize until they’re standing at the edge of a ditch filled with corpses with guns pointed at their backs.

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        Unfortunately, for a lot of union guys in the US it’s not so much a political group as it is a good job club. They don’t really care about the labor movement.

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        Which Union endorsed Trump? As far as I know none did, NAD certainly not the Teamsters. I still remember it was big news when they decided to not endorse either candidate as both were anti union. People in this community seem to have a grasp of facts almost as loose as the MAGA crowd at times

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          Nah they didn’t endorse, but O’Brien was vocally supportive of Trump, and the explanation at the time was that Teamster internal polls showed like 60% of their members did as well.

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            Basically he defacto endorsed Trump. Anyone arguing otherwise is just naive at this point.