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Teamsters President Sean O’Brien Says Union Is “Not Beholden To Anyone Or Any Party” In Historic RNC Speech (deadline.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by memfree to c/politics

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It was a very lefty kind of speech. He talked about "corporate vultures" ruining the US and demanding change.

UPDATE: Text of speech in block of this realclearpolitics article, but the video (below) is better.

PBS piece with video: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-teamsters-president-sean-obrien-speaks-at-republican-national-convention

From the article and speech:

“Remember, elites have no party. Elites have no nation,” he said. “Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and the stock price at the expense of the American worker.”

He added: “The Teamsters are not interested if you have a D, R or an I next to your name. We want to know one thing: What are you doing to help American workers?”

“Never forget, American workers own this nation. We are not renters. We are not tenants. Wut the corporate elite treat us like squatters, and that is a crime. We’ve got to fix it,” he said.

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[–] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's fair that maybe he felt like he could still insert a pro-labour message in the minds of working class Republican voters who were tuned in, but it's confounding for him to not call out Trump who is representative of the exploitative capitalists he was talking about. That's the silent endorsement to me, making it seem like the two are not completely at odds.

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