Teamsters President Sean O'Brien said the union is "not beholden to anyone or any party" in his RNC speech

It was a very lefty kind of speech. He talked about “corporate vultures” ruining the US and demanding change.

UPDATE: Text of speech in block of this realclearpolitics article, but the video (below) is better.

PBS piece with video: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-teamsters-president-sean-obrien-speaks-at-republican-national-convention

From the article and speech:

“Remember, elites have no party. Elites have no nation,” he said. “Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and the stock price at the expense of the American worker.”

He added: “The Teamsters are not interested if you have a D, R or an I next to your name. We want to know one thing: What are you doing to help American workers?”

“Never forget, American workers own this nation. We are not renters. We are not tenants. Wut the corporate elite treat us like squatters, and that is a crime. We’ve got to fix it,” he said.

see also: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/teamsters-sean-obrien-trump-rnc-speech

  • memfree@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Watch the video. I also linked to the speech as transcribed by realclearpolitics (though I think there’s a couple errors in there).

    We need corporate welfare reform. Under our current system, massive companies like Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and Walmart take zero responsibilities for the workers they employ. These companies offer no real health insurance, no retirement benefits, no paid leave, relying on underfunded public assistance. And who foots the bill? The individual taxpayer. The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations, and this is real corruption.