when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien
when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien
It’s amazingly bad.
You know for a fact he'd be singing a wildly different song if it was him being fired. Like most of the people who voted for him and then immediately regretted it when his dumbass policies hurt them as well.
Teamsters have never had anybody’s back but their own.
Put him with Hoffa.
Sell out
He knows they're going to eat his face right?
Teamsters suck
Same is true of the union members who voted for Trump
Guess who's laughing in his face? BTW- O'Brien made in $250,352 in 2023.
Thank you Jamelle for all you are being outspoken about and the frankness of your words. Keep it up.
WT ACTUAL F!
They should “Hoffa” this guy. Wink wink.
How is this guy still the leader of the Teamsters?
Used to be, unions would police themselves. People like O'Brien would be taken to lunch and never be heard from again. The good old days.
Failed state.
This guy represents workers.
Even thought Sean O'Brien didn't officially endorse Trump for the Teamsters Union, he did endorse him in a backroom type of manner. Unions, other than sometimes law enforcement are decimated by GOP leadership in the Oval Office. Check out O'Briens bank accounts to learn the full story.
O’Brien is a feckless jerk.
We need to put a stop to people abandoning their duties out of fear of Trump. They need to know cowardice has a cost, too.
Exactly. There's no room for cowardice in public life; another reason why idiot Trump should be nowhere the WH. He'd sell his own family down the river for a smile and a pat on the backside from that lunatic Putin. They haven't got a moral between them.
He really is a jerk - you nailed it. He’s just one more insecure guy playing a role. It’s all a superficial performance to establish his chest thumping masculinity. What is wrong with pathetic guys like this?!?
2025 mafioso union. Bringing back the 80's.
Fascists HATE Unions.
If we all had the confidence of mediocre men what a world this would be.
He’s only there to support the elite. Fake opposition is the hallmark of any successful oligarchy.
He's a huge disappointment
You’re fired
Republican garbage. Vote them out!
Scabby O'Buttface
They haven't proven anything is fraud. And what they've cut are things they don't approve of. How is the cutting fat? That's just pushing an agenda. Want to cut waste use forensic auditors and then listen to them. This man shouldn't be representing the Teamsters, he sold out.
And now Jamell hates Sean O'Brian because he won't bend a knee to the Progressive agenda. Maybe the DNC should take a long hard look in the mirror and ask why the blue collar working class has run screaming from their policies. It ain't Sean O'Brian Jamell should be upset with.
Labor has almost always sided with the racist.
The president of NFFE and the UAW need to have a word with him. He is not within in rights.
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Will they get their pensions when they retire? It looks doubtful.
He also thinks he’s the F#cking King!!!
You left out the word white.
He’s a real asshole
He’s such a sell out scab!
What do you expect from an organisation that was once in bed with the mob and Jimmy Hoffa?
Teamsters need a new boss
Step aside my man
Another fool disgracing us Irish Americans. F Sean O'Brien.
fawning cock sucker
Sean's just another in a long line of people hungry for power and he sees an opening on the right he can exploit. Look for him to change his views completely and run for office as a Republican soon. Exact same playbook as Tulsi Gabbard. 🙄
I'm a UFT member for 24 years. There are union leaders who do not give one whit for their members, they are only in it for the perks, privileges, & money. UFT Prez Mike Mulgrew has been in cahoots w/ Adams to stick retires on Medicare Advantage, for ex. Why? Maybe this? nypost.com/2024/10/12/u...
Mulgrew has recently turned against stealing retiree health care after his Unity caucus lost Para elections (first time ever) and he worries he could lose unionwide election in May. Even then, he appears to have finagled a former Unity ally to run so as to split the anti-Unity vote. $ always!!!
O’Brien you are a piece of shit! Teamsters you deserve better leadership! Remove O’Brien !
He's diggin his own grave...
SCAB sellout
Seriously, the head of a union. Vote him out
I'm a Teamster. We are not a monolith. We are not in lockstep behind this guy. He's a scab sucking up to power. Might want to take some lessons from Shawn Fain to see what a real union boss looks like.
I'm not a teamster, but I'm in a union, and this makes me so angry for all Teamster members. Hang in there. I can't imagine he will keep his job for too long at this rate.
How would one get rid of him? Can your organization hold a vote?
He elected in 2021 for a 5-year term. So nothing going to change on the short-term.
Ask Jimmy Hoffa.
A bunch of fucking double talk! These people care more about their job,than they do the United States. What will they do, when the First Felon takes over their unions,and fires them? Will they say "I didn't know he was such a bastard"? They know, believe me,they know. It's all about money and power.
Another imbecile 😡🤬
The question is whether the members who elect him share these values. I would guess that most don't even understand what they're giving up and what they're getting in this bargain.
How spineless he is
They just keep bending over for him.
If they Hoffa this guy, I would completely understand.
Can you imagine having this wad as the leader of your union. Your union.
Like how is there not a no confidence vote in this guy today?
I remember when he spoke at Trumps rally and a lot of dems thought his words had double meaning. I was hoping it was the case but it just turns out he was speaking honestly about the man. Obrien is a major coward.
I’m a Teamster and I’m really confused by this guy? I don’t know what HE THINKS he’s doing. Because it’s not helpful to his Union.
He’s stabbing all other American unions in the back to get some head pats (at the very least) from the capitalists who exploit their workers. He’s worse than a scab.
He thinks he can cut a deal with Trump. He thinks Trump will listen to him and not the Oligarchs. He’s delusional, you guys need to vote him out.
It’s not even that deep. He’s just another insecure white man afraid of women and equality. Toxic masculinity is a hell of a drug.
He’s doing what the unions did under Hitler. They joined him.
He must be a long life #maga You need a new leader
That's not true though
Really? Ah yes it is.
Good lord 🙄
Same here, Sister.
He is doing what an overcompensating coward bitch ratfk cardboard gangster bigot would do ?
Everything before ‘but’ is a lie.
Bootlicker O’brien. And Teamsters back Lori Chavez? She gave a big NOO when asked today in hearings: “So you no longer support the aspect of the PRO Act that would’ve overturned state right-to-work laws?” asked Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky. Sold out the working class- neither are a friend to labor
-o'brien was not a trump fan as recently as late 2021 (when trump's faux blue-collar appeal was well-established) -he was tilting toward trump by late 2023 (when joe biden was still in the race, so kamala harris's femininity wasn't the reason) prospect.org/blogs-and-ne... what *really* changed?
Teamsters need a new President. This one is selling them out.
🤦🏼♀️😡
What a POS throwing other working people under the bus .
One mafia head talking about another
Bro doesn’t even ride the fence, he just sprints to whatever side of the road suits him most on a topic.
His ass is out in the next teamsters elections.
O'Brien looks just like the fascist mole that he is.
Truth
Labor movement indeed!
Sean is a Catholic. His support of Trump comes from his belief that women are second class citizens. Period. Don't at me. I'll never look.
I think that is weird. Biden is a Catholic. Trump and Sean worship at the alter of money and power.
This is literally a deplorable pos
Wow. Teamsters siding w a union busting felon. Sad day for American unions. Many govt employees are represented by unions.
Another sad day for America!
He’s a disgrace to workers everywhere.
I am guessing if a company under the teamsters umbrella fired 1000's he would say the same....
🤬
Any person who is not working at their job and may not actually have the correct skills or interest, SHOULD BE FIRED! Taxpayers have spoken. There is NO MORE FREE RIDES.
Agreed. Just another white dude supporting white dudes
Traitor
Too generous to the treasonous scum!
First, he’s NOT “cutting fat” Sean O’Brien. Musk is dismantling departments to give Shitler total control over everything and at your 101 day mark, I’m going to guess unions will be busted as well. They AREN’T what dictators support. #Asshat
And what a disgraceful contrast with say, Sean Fain.
Stupid fucker
Exactly this because if protecting unions and labor was important, he would have never gotten behind Trump and be saying this crap.
Sean O’Brien only gives a shit about his grift.
That’s nothing but propaganda
Fuck Traitor Sean O’Brien. He is an embarrassment to the Teamsters union.
Holy shit. This is unbelievable. The president of the teamsters union is so MAGA that he does not even care when union workers are being illegally canned by anti-union Musk. Whatever happened to solidarity? www.rferl.org/a/1060898.html
wow. the teamsters obviously needs a new leader.
He should not be the president of a union Jimmy Hoffa is turning over in his grave wherever that is
Which means we do like to see people kissing their jobs and wtf am I doing in this job I have
Wasn't he going to fight someone in Congress not too long ago
He’s not there for HIS rights, he’s there for ours !
"he thinks he's within his rights..." What kind of argument is this??? How does it justify anything?
Can he be impeached?
That's nonsense. He cares about HIS union and its well-being, not other workers. Very familiar pattern in US unions. "Masculinist blue collar identity politics" is a means to that end, if anything. You can't really think that's an end in itself for a union leader?
WTF! THIS GUY...is tip toeing so that we don't even understand that he is sipping KOOL ADE
Way to defend workers' rights!
So then it must be a CEO’s right to fire union members at will. Not a great take for a union leader.
Did anyone expect anything different from this asshole.
What specious point does O'Brien think he's making? He's a sociopath; he "thinks it's his right" to rob people blind and humiliate them. He thinks it's his right as president to act as king. The problem is people who won't push back against it. Ass kissing supplicants.
Another coward
It’s time for s “NEW” Teamsters Leader if this is the ase!!!…😡
I don't know man, I think you're painting a pretty simple caricature of a guy who's trying to work across the aisle and take advantage of a growing right-wing focus on working class issues which is, by the way, his actual job.
😂😂😂
O’Brien is an absolute traitorous clown.
omg he is pathetic
It doesn't matter what "he/Trump" thinks. We are a land of law and order. He doesn't get to "think" differently about the truth and facts. There is no other side. What the Trump regime is doing is illegal and cruel.
This bootlicker made his bones on the backs of hard working union members. He sold them out.
He is such the wrong man for the job. His statements are antithetical to the labor movement.
Disgraceful coward.
I'm just glad thinks he's within his rights. It'd be terrible if he did these things thinking he had no right to do them. Such a relief.
He is trying to play both sides and it is embarrassing.
The Teamsters need to get rid of this guy.
Roll on deodorant man said what?
Once anyone tries to lend a shred of credibility by saying "he thinks", you've lost. He didn't think. He was told what to think, told where to sign and told it was good. He's a worthless elderly golf playing grifter.
That guy is a real pos. But, there's a history of the teamsters being like that. They think it's hoffa and Nixon again I guess. And Trump is corrupt with trades unions and has been forever. Thinks everybody take kickbacks and stuff. Maybe they'll learn. But it'll be too late by then.
He could've endorsed Harris and prevented this. How many Teamsters voted for Trump?
It sounds like the Teamsters Union needs a new leader..
It seems that backbones are in short supply these days
He’s a complicit joke.
Here's hoping you lose your union job. ... .
He sold out. The limelight means more than workers now.
What a dirty scab cocksucker cheese eating rat.
This guy has no honor
you call that a "labor leader?" Seems the rank & file need to rethink who and what elect
Ha. HE'S not blue collar.
Ha, well, lucky for him he’s got a mind worth more than muscle. But I bet he’d still look good in blue.
He's nothing but a straw boss
I was so puzzled why this ass clown spoke at the RNC until I realized that he is hoping for a return to the Criming ways of the old Teamsters union. Anyone remember the Ceasar Chavez and the American Farmworkers union? Didn’t think so. Teamsters were the thugs assaulting the farm workers
Key point: HE thinks HE is within his right. Well as usual, he is wrong, and so is O'Brien.
The reason unions have lost members and power , “leadership”
This guy wouldn't even be worth a dollar in annual salary
And, he doesn’t even need that union provided (off the backs of hard-working laborers) buck. As an “influencer” he can legally accept giant sums of money from a political campaign to misrepresent his members’ interests on demand.
Quisling
Nonsense
SHAMEON HIM!!!
Lis Shuller could wipe the walls with this guy. She’s serious about protecting workers.
Bought and paid for and screwed his own union 🤬
You can do better than this, O'Brien...Stop being so complacent. Unions must stand up for all Americans. DO BETTER & FIGHT!
Boo, hiss to sean
I cant wait until he knocks the Teamsters on their asses.
rights *and* pocketbooks - budget cuts, tariffs, attacks on free trade, tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to federal programs and subsidies, FAA (Teamsters have an airline division) - he's going to have a rebellion on his hands.
Is he somehow a bizarro version of Shawn Fain or something
Sean O'Brien is in league with Fascists.
THIS is the power of disinformation! Before the rise of the Internet, and social media especially, I felt proud to educate my family members, nearly all of whom are working class, as to their rights and expectations. Since then? I'm the enemy! 😡 FYI: I'm a vet, and a rocket scientist. Literally.
So much for labor solidarity.
That guy is so shitty, he would 💯 cross a picket line
He kind of did
their own members too - my wife used to be a Teamster as a library professional at a public university
That entire union is trash The teamsters consume so much garbage am radio/shit podcasts their brains are fried
This guy acts like he’s on the take.
He is, of course.
Fucking scab
Selling out labor for the ability to fire all the non-white people, publicly disparage them as lazy, replace them with white people, and not get sued about it
cartoon characters like o'brien make it hard to organize.
I was counting on him to break a few kneecaps over this. Oh well.
Not cool, Teamsters leadership, not cool — and, “thinking he’s within his right” doesn’t mean he is The more that high-visibility orgs like Teamsters reinforce that thinking…ugh
We are raising the debt ceiling so he can play golf, go to Super Bowls and Daytona race.
Sean O’brian has sold you out.
He's an idiot.
I prophesize a change in Teamster leadership on the horizon. You cannot make so many stupid comments and still retain the confidence of your group.
The Good Labor Union Shawn and the Bad Labor Union Sean were really hard for my brain to disambiguate but I think this cemented it.
My brain remembers it this way: Shawn Fain = Sinn Fein = Good.
That's how I do it too! Lol
Mine too 😎
Class traitor.
I’m ashamed that this scumbag is president of my union.
shameful.
The Teamsters were always in bed with organized crime. No surprise they'd be friendly to Don Cheeto.
so then he would be fine if trump broke up the unions...I means he's the president after all.
Wrong answer, the Teamsters need to take a long look at this guy
Jesus fucking Christ.
Sean OBrien is a traitor.
Well said. And masculinist blue collar identity politics are the most dangerous identity politics of all.
He's a maga. He's kissed the ring. He should NOT be leading a union!
Brilliant comment.
This is who the Teamsters elected as their President. They are OK with whatever happens.
Spoken like a true cuck.
Boy those Teamster membership fees are really paying off for the members 🙄
He should be fired for trying to gaslight everyone. He shouldn't be in charge of a union if hes not passionate about workers' basic rights.
OMG. How can he be on the side of Musk and Trump as a union leader?
Christian.
"Christian"
Where's Frank Sheeran when we need him?
Best I can do is Ed
The whole purpose of the Abrahamic religions is to control women as second or even third class citizens.
the word is chattel
Wow. Kinda makes me want to cross a picket line. Which is something I've never done even once.
It's all good until they come for you..and they will!
Agree. Teamsters are a world unto themselves sadly and Seano here is Exhibit A of their screw everybody else ethic.