The Teamsters’ leader is making quite the gamble.
It’s not every day that you see a teamster walk a tightrope, but on Monday night, Sean O’Brien, president of the mighty Teamsters union, was doing just that at the Republican National Convention.
One can easily imagine O’Brien boasting afterward that he was Daniel in the lion’s den, speaking truth to pro-corporate power. But O’Brien’s decision to appear at the convention stirred furious criticism within the labor movement, especially when many union leaders insist that Joe Biden is the most pro-union president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
O’Brien argued that the nation’s labor laws were pathetically weak. “Americans vote for a union, but can never get a union contract,” he said. “Companies fire workers who try to join unions and hide behind toothless laws that are meant to protect working people but are manipulated to benefit corporations. This is economic terrorism.
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