Has O’Brien become what he should be against?

[Graveyard]

I have enjoyed the videos on the right side, but today’s video is disgusting! The Teamsters just held a large rally attended by OZ, other officers, hundreds of rank-and-file Teamsters and New York elected officials in support of the Delivery Protection Act. The act would require Amazon and other delivery companies (UPS Roadie?) operating in New York City to license their facilities with the city and hire its delivery workforce directly.

Biden’s NLRB “Joint Employer Rule” would have forced companies that use staffing agencies to the bargaining table if they possessed the authority to control working conditions. This ruling would have been significant in supporting the Teamsters goals of organizing Amazon and dealing with UPS’s Roadie across the country.

Instead of working to support of the “Joint Employer Rule” that would have protected workers nationally, O’Brien’s choses to support President Trump and lobbied “Hard” for Lori Chavez-DeRemer as the US Secretary of Labor who at her nominations hearing stated she “Supports the overturning of the Joint Employer rule.”

The person in the video obviously believes in the Teamsters Union given his tats and is free to support whomever he wants and whatever he believes in, that’s his right.

O’Brien, in his personal capacity has the same rights. However, as President of Teamsters Union he has sworn obligation to act solely in the best interests of the members. Hey Sean, what has Trump and all your new BFFs done to help UPS package car members in 112 temps, Amazon subcontractors, UPS subcontractors, Henry Ford nurses or the Biden era NLRB support for the working class?

To me, the video exposes the perfect opportunity for O’Brien to demonstrate leadership by educating the member on his rights and then who supports workers and who does not. The Dems are certainly not perfect, but when comparing their voting records on the working-class issues Vs O’Brien’s new BFFs, the only reasonable conclusion is whatever O’Brien’s reasons are, he places his personal goals over his duty to members he represents.

YES, O’Brien has become what he should be against!

It's a sad day for Teamster members, unions and the working class.

[AlJackson1962!]

O'Brien was already well on his way to what he's become today when he was President of Local 25. He bullshitted the members then too.

[AlJackson1962!]

Trump's reversal of the Biden and Obama era regulations pertaining to global warming and climate change are directly attributable to the closure of the below unionized truck manufacturing plant in Portland,
So, while Union workers get laid off, Trump's pals in the fossil fuel industry are setup to continue bankrolling outrageous profits at the expense of a healthy and sustainable planet.

Portside Labor

Daimler To Close Portland Truck Plant Don McIntosh August 7, 2026 NW Labor Press The plant closure is a sad end to the high hopes of five years ago, when Daimler chose the Portland plant to make new electric versions of its Class 8 heavy truck and smaller box trucks. , For 387 workers and their families, the news landed like a sucker punch July 29. Daimler Trucks North America is closing its Portland truck plant effective Oct. 30. Heavy trucks have been rolling off the Swan Island assembly line since 1952, providing generations of union-wage work. Now the plant will go silent, though the nearby corporate headquarters will remain. The closure means permanent layoff for 214 members Machinists Local 1005, 101 members of Teamsters Local 305, 10 members of Painters Local 1094, and 9 members of SEIU Local 49, plus 44 non-union office employees. It’s a sad end to the high hopes of five years ago, when Daimler chose the Portland plant to make new electric versions of its Class 8 heavy truck and smaller box trucks. Demand for electric trucks was on track to increase dramatically thanks to new state-level mandates in California, Oregon, Washington, and nine other states. But Trump’s second administration has moved aggressively to fight those mandates in court, and in June 2025, the Republican Congress repealed a federal waiver that allowed California to enforce its Advanced Clean Trucks rule. Union members have been making heavy trucks in Portland since Freightliner began production in 1947, led by Leland James as part of his trucking company Consolidated Freightways. But production has been shifting elsewhere since Freightliner built its first plant in North Carolina in 1978. That shift continued after Daimler-Benz bought Freightliner in 1981 and opened its first plant in Mexico in 1992. As late as 2000, the Portland truck plant employed more than 3,000 workers, but it shrank dramatically after that. In 2009, Daimler announced it would close the Portland plant, but it walked back that decision after Machinists union leaders pointed out that a closure would trigger enormously expensive pension withdrawal liability. Daimler ended up withdrawing from the Machinists pension in 2017 with the approval of union members, providing equivalent benefits by boosting contributions to a 401(k) and paying off the withdrawal liability, which had lessened by then. Production of Freightliner branded trucks ended in 2007, and since then the Portland plant has made specialty trucks like dump trucks and cement mixers under its Western Star brand. (Daimler bought Western Star, a Canadian truck company, in 2000, then closed its British Columbia plant and moved production to Portland.) In 2021 Daimler announced that Freightliner production would return to its home town with new all-electric models, the eCascadia semi truck and eM2 box truck. Daimler invested in new capital equipment and the first eCascadia debuted in 2022. Randy Lill, union rep for Machinists Local 1005, said truck orders were already stalling out: Production had fallen to 13 trucks per day, down from 24 a few years ago. Mostly of the orders have been for Western Star trucks, but the plant has continued to produce some electric vehicles too. Lill says production has been plagued by parts shortages in the last few years, in some cases even leading to temporary shutdowns. A company spokesperson told The Oregonian the closure wasn’t a reflection on the local workforce or business conditions in Portland. It’s just that its factories and supply chains are increasingly concentrated on the East Coast, making Portland an outlier. When the Portland plant shuts permanently on Oct. 30, its work will shift elsewhere. Daimler performs final assembly of Freightliner trucks at plants in Cleveland and Mount Holly, North Carolina; Fort Mill, South Carolina; and in Mexico at plants in Saltillo and Santiago (near Mexico City) The Cleveland plant also makes Western Star trucks. Other nearby plants in the Carolinas make custom chassis and cab and chassis parts. Machinists union leaders were set to meet with the company Aug. 6 and 7, after this issue went to press, to discuss the closure. The permanent closure includes all workers at the massive truck plant at 6936 N. Fathom St., at a nearby post-production facility at 5400 N. Basin St. that customizes trucks according customer specifications, and at a drop lot at 5001 N Channel St. where completed vehicles await transport. Machinists union members will get severance equal to two weeks base pay for every year of service, thanks to a provision they negotiated into their union contract. Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 has offered the use of its hall at 2379 NE 178th Ave. for a meeting for Machinists Local 1005 members at the truck plant. The meeting will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. It will include presentations about unemployment benefits, job placement assistance, and how to obtain health insurance. Attendees will also be surveyed to find out what additional help they need. A letter notifies workers of the closure. Editor Don McIntosh has been with the Northwest Labor Press since 1998. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Portland in 1985, and first practiced journalism at the Daily Vanguard, Portland State University's student newspaper. After earning a bachelor's in history, he served as an underground union organizer (salt) with Teamsters Local 174 in Seattle. Back in Portland, he wrote for the Portland Business Journal and Willamette Week and was editor of the Portland Alliance, a monthly community newspaper. Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper founded in 1900. Our print version is mailed twice a month to about 45,000 members of over three dozen local unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our online version has been maintained here since 1997.

[admin324]

The video Graveyard is referring to.

[WTF891]

He' a sickening sellout POS.

[JWebb]

Teamsters Conservative Caucus, (TCC)? How will they define "conservative". Is it just another way to support Trump and MAGA? BTW Trumpism ain't conservativism. Or is it a way to sideline another well known caucus?