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  • OT+
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2023
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    Petition to Reinstate Jess's TDU Membership

    Reinstate Jess's TDU membership
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    This petition calls on the co-chairs of TDU to: 1) Reinstate Jess Lister�s TDU membership, or 2) Provide evidence for the allegations that Jess opposes TDU�s principles On June 8, 2024, Jess Lister, a UPS Teamster in Griffin, GA, Local 728, renewed her membership online with Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). She received a confirmation email and then a letter in the mail from the TDU co-chairs thanking her for renewing her membership. This letter included a membership card with her handwritten name, valid until June 2025. Then, on July 2, Jess received an automated email from TDU stating that her dues had been refunded, with Peter Landon listed as a TDU contact to reach out to with any questions. The next day she emailed Landon to ask why her dues had been refunded. TDU responded that evening: �TDU reserves the right to exclude from membership, and from attendance at the TDU Convention, individuals who oppose TDU and its principles. Accordingly, the TDU co-chairs have reviewed and rejected your application to renew your TDU membership.� The TDU co-chairs are Anthony Rosario, Sean Orr, Corey Levesque, and Sean Williams. On Teamsters for a Democratic Union�s website they describe themselves as: �...a grassroots organization of thousands of members across North America, working together to rebuild Teamster Power. We fight for good contracts and oppose concessions and benefit cuts. We bring Teamsters together to enforce our rights and to hold union officials accountable to the members. Not controlled by any official and answerable only to the rank and file, we are an independent voice for working Teamsters.� Jess has been an active part-time UPS worker for almost 7 years and a shop steward for 5 years. She has been an active TDU member since May 2023 and attended the 2023 TDU convention where she unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the TDU International Steering Committee. Today, Jess is on the Steering Committee of another Teamsters caucus, Teamsters Mobilize. Anyone who has met Jess knows she is a dedicated fighter, unafraid to speak out and hold IBT officials accountable, including the current leadership of Sean O�Brien. It is simply not true that Jess opposes TDU or its stated principles. In fact, Jess has been courageously calling out TDU�s leadership when they went against TDU�s own stated principles of �oppose concessions and benefit cuts� and �hold union officials accountable to the members.� When Jess and Teamsters Mobilize led a Vote No campaign to oppose the major concessions in the 2023 UPS tentative agreement, such as creating a new lower-paid tier of warehouse workers and wage increases that don�t keep up with inflation, TDU leadership covered over those concessions and sold this tentative agreement to its members in order to maintain their alliance with the O�Brien administration. For this betrayal, Jess called out TDU�s leadership and stood up for the rank and file. It�s our view that every Teamster for a Democratic Union member, and activists in the broader union reform movement, should oppose the TDU co-chairs� action to deny membership to an active Teamster on what seems to be the basis of rightfully criticizing the organization�s leadership. This is an unhealthy and very dangerous precedent to set within the largest reform caucus in the Teamsters and it calls this statement into serious question: �Not controlled by any official and answerable only to the rank and file, we are an independent voice for working Teamsters.� This petition calls on the co-chairs of TDU to: 1) Reinstate Jess Lister�s TDU membership, or 2) Provide evidence for the allegations that Jess opposes TDU�s principles This petition was started by Teamsters Mobilize (TM), which works to engage, educate and empower workers to transform our union. TM grew out of TDU when, at the 2022 TDU Convention, TDU leadership denied UPS part-timer TDU members� request to form a UPS Part-Timer Caucus. After that, those TDU members formed Teamsters Mobilize to fight for UPS part-timer demands in the 2023 UPS contract, and then organized a Vote No campaign for the 2023 UPS Contract. Many TM members are also TDU members. If you have any questions, please reach out to TM at [email protected].
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    • Mr. Teamster
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2023
      • 345
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      Must be a slow news day in who cares land.
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      • DanaCos
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2023
        • 970
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        I signed it because I can't stand piss ants that get in these organizations and throw people to the curb for no good reason but their own. AND, this is TDU we are talking about, why not sign it?
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          • TheMilitantTeamster
            #3.1
            TheMilitantTeamster commented
            07-19-2024, 04:12 AM
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            • TheMilitantTeamster
              #3.2
              TheMilitantTeamster commented
              07-19-2024, 04:13 AM
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              The whole TDU is a cult of turds
              • DanaCos
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                DanaCos commented
                07-19-2024, 04:20 AM
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                To shake it up. They are supposed to be inclusive. :-) If she gets in to shake it up, good for her. I might not be on the same wave length with any of these groups, but helping a person who wants to expose what you've been saying for years has my support. I see your point, I wouldn't do it either.
                • TheMilitantTeamster
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                  07-19-2024, 04:24 AM
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                • TheMilitantTeamster
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                  • Jan 2023
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                    • TheMilitantTeamster
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                      • Jan 2023
                      • 457
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                      Also she leads Turd 2.0 that banned Tony over QAnon posts on the internet ?
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                        • The Direct Line
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                          The Direct Line commented
                          07-24-2024, 02:25 AM
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                          I wish the best for ITOC,

                          Now for you. So in your local, you all call Teamsters Mobilize/TM "TURD 2.0". That is hilarious. You say Tony C puts "solidarity above personality" but do you? Or do you just talk that shit.
                        • WTF891
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2024
                          • 477
                          #6
                          Originally posted by TheMilitantTeamster
                          Also she leads Turd 2.0 that banned Tony over QAnon posts on the internet ?
                          May the TURD be With You.jpgIf this is true they are just as big a bunch of hypocrites. Don't be a TURD.
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                            • TheMilitantTeamster
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                              TheMilitantTeamster commented
                              07-19-2024, 03:08 PM
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                              Yes they have gone the way of the turd. We call them the little turd here at Local 162
                            • Tony R Cochran
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2024
                              • 202
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                              Jess Lister should be reinstated into the Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and I have signed a petition in support of her reinstatement. As a former founding member that served on the Teamsters Mobilize Steering Committee, I can, despite being banned from Teamsters Mobilize itself, only support the inclusion of our union siblings into all Teamster organizations. The late Howard Williamson said his life's fight was for inclusion vs exclusion. Exclusion is harmful, toxic and destructive.

                              Solidarity,

                              Tony Cochran
                              Local 162
                              ITOC
                              United Front Committee for a Labor Party
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                              • Mr. Teamster
                                Senior Member
                                • Jul 2023
                                • 345
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                                Originally posted by Tony R Cochran
                                Jess Lister should be reinstated into the Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and I have signed a petition in support of her reinstatement. As a former founding member that served on the Teamsters Mobilize Steering Committee, I can, despite being banned from Teamsters Mobilize itself, only support the inclusion of our union siblings into all Teamster organizations. The late Howard Williamson said his life's fight was for inclusion vs exclusion. Exclusion is harmful, toxic and destructive.

                                Solidarity,

                                Tony Cochran
                                Local 162
                                ITOC
                                United Front Committee for a Labor Party
                                Why were you banned from this organization. Were you embezzling from more women?
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