TDU Supporting Racist Fascist SOB Who Is Backing Trump's Fascist Dictatorship

[510cdl]

The Teamsters For A Democratic Union TDU is having their national convention in Chicago on November 7, 2025 and is planning to invite as their special guest speaker IBT president Sean O'Brien and then have a vote to support him and his slate in 2026 when the election is national union election is taking place. SOB has also been backing Trump and his drive for dictatorship and war as well as remaining silent about his open union busting policies.

Retired Teamster and author of Teamster Land Joe Allen and Jesse Leigh a Teamster in Atlanta and also a leader of Teamster Mobilize talk about what is going on in the Teamsters and why Teamsters and all working people are threatened by the support of the TDU for SOB who is backing the fascist Trump government.

The TDU leadership has also removed the membership of members who are fighting for rank and file democratic control of TDU and are opposed to the support for SOB for president of the IBT when the elections will be held in 2026.

This interview was done on 10/25/25.

https://youtu.be/Vvg2P52Ub0k

[Yard Dog]

Look we know he's a punk. Why is it always about race and gender ?

[Gimliboston9]

How many other presidents posted a photo of a man with a gun to a woman’s head? That might be one instance that makes gender an issue, no?

[jerseymike78]

Race? How about you look at his firing practices ,cost us millions a of dollars when he got us sued.
Also take a look at his local and joint council , photos seem to paint a picture , try and find some diversity. Good luck!

[AlJackson1962!]

O'Brien's silence on the overt racism that is being perpetrated by his ally Donald Trump and Trump's MAGA movement demands that Teamster members stand up and say: Not in our name! That goes for all elected Teamster officers and representatives; that's how our IBT Constitution is framed. No lip service will do justice to fighting the divisions that have been sown since January 20, 2024. There is a wholesale erasure taking place of the Black and Brown liberation struggle that has been fought in this country. And those divisions will be the death knell for organized labor unless we fight back.

[Thisischange?]

Because it is.

[510cdl]

Look we know he's a punk. Why is it always about race and gender ?

I’m pretty sure this is one of the reasons O’Brien is labeled a racist. When anything that affects everyone, no matter their race, gender, pronouns, whatever, it’s the proportion that’s usually pointed out to define the action as whatever - bigoted, sexist, etc. It doesn’t mean that the people who don’t fit in that group are being ignored, it’s a method of recognizing that some get it worse than others. That’s my two cents.

Teamsters union pays $2.9m to settle racial discrimination lawsuit

Exclusive: union’s president, Sean O’Brien, accused of having ‘publicly humiliated’ Black and Hispanic workers Michael Sainato Wed 31 Jan 2024 17.28 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/31/teamsters-racial-discrimination-lawsuit

[510cdl]

That’s 2.9 million that came out of our paychecks, by the way.

[Yard Dog]

Face it your stuck with the punk.

[jerseymike78]

I notice you say “ your” stuck with the punk not “ we are” stuck with the punk. Seems telling.

[Yard Dog]

Yes You're stuck with the punk.

[Watcher745]

So, I guess you are not a teamster.

[Yard Dog]

Retired 44 year Teamster.