Seems like not *everyone* in the Teamsters agrees that the union should hitch its wagon to American fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/teamsters-sean-obrien-rnc-speech
"In a now deleted tweet, the Teamsters posted a response to O’Brien retweeting an op-ed by the Republican senator Josh Hawley, in which O’Brien wrote: “Hawley is 100% on point.”
The deleted social media post said: “Unions gain nothing from endorsing the racist, misogynistic, and anti-trans politics of the far right, no matter how much people like Sen Hawley attempt to tether such bigotry to a cynical pro-labor message.
“The message this sends to Teamsters of color, Teamster women, and LGBTQ Teamsters is that they are not welcome in the union unless they surrender their identity to a new kind of anti-woke unionism. You don’t unite a diverse working class by scoffing at its diversi
... Show more...Seems like not *everyone* in the Teamsters agrees that the union should hitch its wagon to American fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/teamsters-sean-obrien-rnc-speech
"In a now deleted tweet, the Teamsters posted a response to O’Brien retweeting an op-ed by the Republican senator Josh Hawley, in which O’Brien wrote: “Hawley is 100% on point.”
The deleted social media post said: “Unions gain nothing from endorsing the racist, misogynistic, and anti-trans politics of the far right, no matter how much people like Sen Hawley attempt to tether such bigotry to a cynical pro-labor message.
“The message this sends to Teamsters of color, Teamster women, and LGBTQ Teamsters is that they are not welcome in the union unless they surrender their identity to a new kind of anti-woke unionism. You don’t unite a diverse working class by scoffing at its diversity.”
I'm not gonna lie, it did not all surprise me that when every single other union was speaking out against American fascism and the rich corporate nazis that support it, it was the Teamsters leadership who came out as fash-curious. But it's important to remember that a union is its members, not its leader.
Shoutout to the social media guy who posted that, and Sean O'Brien is a pigfucking nazi. That is all.
#USPolitics #Teamsters #Antifascism #Labor
Deleted post said, ‘unions gain nothing from endorsing the racist, misogynistic, and anti-trans politics of the far right’
Michael Sainato (The Guardian)