AOC is doing what the unions wanted

Aoc went from saying Kamala shouldn’t be president to defending her honor against Jill Stein and Teamsters.

She hasn’t been the same since Elon Musk ratioed her.

The dumbest part is it really doesn’t matter. Union endorsements don’t move votes like it used to, and if the Teamsters leadership endorsed Kamala in spite of the member votes it would’ve made her support look artificial. Best to just shut up about it.

You gotta respect her walking up to a gun fight with no bullets. Like, yeah, tell me about the history of strong support of labor from the DNC. She is just so excited to trip over her dick on this one.

So glad our politicians are just as Twitter obsessed as our worst chuds

She's really an attack dog for centrist Democrats now huh

I keep seeing this story and getting shocked, but then remembering that Sean O'Brien is a different guy from Shawn Fain. One of them should change their first name to make it easier to remember whose who.

The Bronx Neera Tanden

Your brain on liberalism.

She's getting her bona fides ready for AOC for US Senate 2028.

she's also tweeting against chris cuomo's enthusiasm for terror against children. we're not really in it for consistency with anyone enough to think that they can do anything with the levers of power but push the throttle a little further out. starting to think that all public officials should just be banned from all social media.

Picking a fight with one of the only famous and functioning unions in the US. Smart.

In case anyone thought racial problems in the Teamsters is new under O'Brien.

O'Brien praised Tobin when running for his position, the racist, picket-line crossing, pro-business former Teamster's leader.

Tobin was a very conservative and prejudiced man uninterested in organizing minorities or industrial workers, who he referred to as “riff-raff.”1 Organizationally, his IBT focused attention on only recruiting skilled workers. Nevertheless, under Tobin, the union steadily grew in membership during the first quarter of the century. However, Tobin actively discouraged strikes while encouraging a “go-along to get-along” agenda with employers. Anyone who dared to challenge his official policies could expect to be disciplined from the top. In 1915 he wrote, “Our international union is a business institution and it must be run on business lines or it cannot continue to exist.”2

The Teamsters were famous for pushing "skilled" vs "unskilled" worker distinctions. Only skilled workers needed union protections. You could usually tell if a worker was considered skilled by their skin color.

The Teamsters have always been the union that your boss wants you to choose if they have to let you pick a union. They have everything a boss wants: no strikes, keep people divided via racism, crush any talk of socialism, no qualms about crossing picket lines and being scabs to "raid" a more principled union as a method of hostile, boss-assisted growth.