Local 705 Takes a Stand

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[working396]

When Sean O'Brien makes statements like he did to Sen. Josh Hawley about immigration, hes trashing thousands of teamsters like the group in the story. The union has lots of bargaining units like this 705 group and not just in California but all over the country. It would be fairer to those teamsters if the National union had the same policy as Local 705 has.

[AlJackson1962!]

[Gimliboston9]

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[Thisischange?]

Why is Campos running with O'Brien? Some have said he never had much spine anyway.

[Gimliboston9]

He was a serious Ken Hall suck up!

[AlJackson1962!]

Interesting and relevant piece of history regarding Sean O'Brien and the Mauser strike. It seems to have disappeared from the front page of the Teamsters.org website, even though it's among the longer ongoing Teamster strikes in the US. So, why isn't the ongoing Mauser strike prominently posted on the Teamster.org website along with other ongoing actions by Locals around the country?

In around 2011 (if my memory is correct), when O'Brien was President of Local 25, he hired an organizer to organize Boston area parking lot workers, many of whom are immigrant workers. As I recall, the organizer O'Brien hired was himself a parking lot worker and originally from Somalia, and O'Brien recognized the importance of hiring a capable, multi-lingual immigrant organizer that would be very helpful in that organizing effort. The organizing drive was successful, and when Local 251 organizer, Mike Simone, organized SP Plus Parking workers at TF Greene Airport in Warwick, RI, we looked to the success of Local 25 in winning a first contract for the SP Plus workers and it's successor employer LAZ Parking.

Maybe Local 25 members that read this can shed some light on what happened to that particular organizer. And how does O'Brien square his anti-immigrant talking points to appease his anti-immigrant allies in the Republican Party? Workers are workers deserving Union representation and Union support in their workplace regardless of being documented or undocumented. That's the Union's job and responsibility period.

[510cdl]

This is

[Yard Dog]

Mr. Magoo could care less. He's going to leave you all hanging.