A Teamster posted images of a fund raising letter they received from President Sean O'Brien on r/Union (warning: reddit link).
In the letter, Sean O'Brien claims that Trump is creating a new 'Worker First' republican party, and implores the reader to donate as much as they can to the Teamster 'TEAM Fund', which will be used to:
- Support Trump's 'Pro-Worker' initiatives, like 'strategic' tariffs
- Financially back incumbent 'pro-worker' republican candidates for the House and Senate
- Identify pro-labor legislatures in key states and support their campaigns
Sean then introduces the next part of the letter; a message from Josh Hawley, a Christian Nationalist and Trump loyalist state senator who fist pumped the Jan 6th rioters in support.
In the letter Hawley claims Trump has eliminated the "country club elites and business tycoons" from the republican party, as well as ending the "Woke DEI agenda".
If there was ever any doubt about O'Brien, he's certainly showing his true colors now, bending the knee to the fascists in power and even going so far as to fund raise for them.
The letter itself:
Teamsters tends to be the only union with viability in deep red culture areas of the country. If the union is Teamsters, usually the alternative is no union. I always try to calibrate for the fact they're usually representing some deeply red workers in deeply red areas of the country. The message is at very least pro-worker and corporation-critical.
But even so Hawley isn't exactly the fuckin' guy, unless maybe this is a mailing from within Missouri or something.
Source: former Teamster in a deep red district of a deep blue state.
Ultimately though there has really got to be better alternatives for unions to start backing, even in the most right-wing pockets of the country. Just pick or find an independent that isn't dogshit Sean.
The military teaches you leadership is convincing others to accomplish what they other wise would have not. Sorry but this letter is not what a union leader should be sending, regardless of who he represents.