cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29278337
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:
That’s been official for a while. The IUEC under their presidents leadership bullies out women and black peoples by committing collusionary crimes on them. Tactics like sexual assault and threats of lynching are very commonplace and used by union officials. The EEOC is toothless so this behavior continues even though our tax dollars prop up these apprenticeships. I think a lot of these male dominated segregated construction trades don’t actually believe in civil rights. I do think McCarthyism made the problem worse. I think some like the IBEW are actually changing. Unfortunately, I’ve lost any hope that this will change in our lifetime so these heavily subsidized paths to the middle class are blocked based on race/sex.