How long will O'Brien and the rest of the GEB remain silent on what we're witnessing?

[AlJackson1962!]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...smid=url-share

Today's NYT article (see above link) published the day after Labor Day: We are witnessing the biggest union-busting event in our country's history. Federal workers' collective bargaining rights being shredded, NLRB members fired, US Department of Labor throwing out hundreds of pro-worker regulations, OSHA being gutted. We should all recognize and know that union members' rights in the private sector are headed in the same direction as federal workers.

It was the Trump Supreme Court appointees that created the majority ruling that ended union security for all public sector workers. And our Teamsters General President is not only complicit by his silence, in this wholesale union-busting; he is supporting the politicians implementing these policies.

Months into his first term as US President, Ronald Reagan fired the striking air traffic controllers, breaking their union: PATCO. This raised the flag as a signal to private sector employers, that the White House was declaring war on workers. We went through years of reduced bargaining power as a result. Strikes against, and lockouts by, major employers, Hormel, International Paper, Phelps Dodge, TWA, Eastern Airlines, Greyhound; to name a few that broke strikes by using permanent scab replacement workers. Trump and his allies clearly will not stop until collective bargaining rights are severely reduced or stripped entirely for all of organized labor.

We must demand that the elected IBT "leadership" do the jobs they were elected to do; not allow them to capitulate to the "white collar corporate criminals" as Sean O'Brien readily calls them. Tough guy and self-proclaimed: SOB, Sean O'Brien, has shown us all which side he is on; he's on the side of the employers that rank & file Teamsters confront every day on the job. He was elected to fight for our interests and he has failed miserably.

[Bob Randall]

Here is the reason that the GEB will not effectively take up issue with SOB's neglect as the General President of the IBT. (I don't consider this to be an opinion. Moreover, it is my belief based on 40 years as a member of two unions as a staff worker, Business Agent, organizer, rank and filer along with real life experiences for an even greater period of time.) We will not see the GEB take a stand against SOB in any way. Just as Republican "players" don't come out against Trump the GEB will not come out against SOB because they know that they will be retaliated against. So many of the GEB's additional salaries are a result of holding more than "one hat" will be jeopardized ($$$$). We should not continue to hope. It simply will not happen. That's the reality of deal making in life and within Teamster life. Moreover, I'm guessing that half of the GEB actually agree with SOB, Trump and MAGA. That's the world that we live in. Now, TDU? I still cling to a bit of hope that the rank and file, having nothing of such value to lose, can attempt to have an influence over of the organization's complicity when it comes to SOB's relationship with a union buster. However, I ain't quick to hang my hat on that.

[overnighter]

They are bigger sell outs than the GEB that handed over the open ended Consent Decree to Rudy Giuliani. Not a stitch of integrity and they are all deadly afraid of being on the outs. Look what happened to Dan Kane and Rick Hicks, dumped.