SoCal TDU Grocery members unhappy with O'Brien!

[Faust]

Word is that TDU grocery members in SoCal are not happy with Sean O'Brien. The IBT has not done anything to stop the introduction of robotics that will cost order selector jobs. At the same time the IBT engineers came to SoCal warehouses and ruled in favor of the grocery chains unfair production standards.

The new production standards are cutting into members bonuses and resulting in disciplinary action.

O'Brien has also not used any resources into stopping Kroger from buying Albertsons. The merger will shut down Teamster warehouses and UFCO stores. The UFCO has filed a lawsuit to prevent the merger, but O'Brien hasn't spent a penny.

TDU won't publish anything in fear of being cut from the $30,000 scholarship they are receiving from the IBT per year to become their cheerleader and their members are angry!!!?

[SlipSheets]

Very true!

[EmptyGlassJEM]

[Guest]

They were for 23 years you toss pot.

[EmptyGlassJEM]

They were for 23 years you toss pot.

[Guest]

[EmptyGlassJEM]

[Faust]

Hoffa and O'Brien are both old guard nepoteamsters. O'Brien was Hoffa's most loyal old guard thug in New England. As a matter of fact O'Brien gladly ran on the Hoffa ticket in 2011 and 2016.

Hoffa appointed O'Brien as Ken Hall's assistant for the 2013 UPS negotiations. Then he appointed O'Brien as his package director for the 2018 contract. O'Brien was a die hard hofficer and everyone knows that.

O'Brien supported the corporate lawyer and got in trouble in 2013 when he threatened Pork Chops at 251 and got Rob Atkinson fired in Western Pennsylvania.

Anyone who thinks O'Brien is a reformer is delusional!

O'Brien will land a mediocre deal at UPS and there will be no strike.

[Jazzman]

O'Brien will land a mediocre deal at UPS and there will be no strike.

I strongly disagree with that statement. In this economy with labor shortages, inflation, record UPS company profits and a general favorability of unions right now how could he not bargain the best deal ever? The bar is pretty low for part-time to begin with and the company is obviously aware. O'Brien wouldn't raise expectations if he didn't have a plan.

[Faust]

O'Brien is gonna go belly-up, mark my words!

[Guest]

I strongly disagree with that statement. In this economy with labor shortages, inflation, record UPS company profits and a general favorability of unions right now how could he not bargain the best deal ever? The bar is pretty low for part-time to begin with and the company is obviously aware. O'Brien wouldn't raise expectations if he didn't have a plan.

[Faust]

I think he's referring to the gal Rick Hicks had do a You Tube video explaining the wonders of the 22.4s to counter the Wisconsin kid Tyler Binder against voting No.

[percap2high]

I think he's referring to the gal Rick Hicks had do a You Tube video explaining the wonders of the 22.4s to counter the Wisconsin kid Tyler Binder against voting No.

I guess members should have elected Tyler Binder International Vice President. Rick Hicks was one of the biggest supporters of the 2018 deal called it "best ever", made videos, using dues money to sell it, bragged to the administration about how hard he was working to sell it. I'd guess those videos are long gone, because now he's a militant reformer, lol. If that contract is your big issue, why would you pick a leader in the effort to sell it as your VP?

[Faust]

Its Davison and YES he was a vote YES guy like his boy Rick "the Rat" Hicks.

[working396]

Getting back to the original subject matter of the post, that TDU members in SoCal are unhappy. That doesn't seem like a whole lot of people, any idea how many TDU members are even in SoCal? There used to be a lot in sanitation but not so much now. You don't have to be a TDU member to be unhappy right now.

If their concerned about robotics they should be. Every teamster should be concerned, driverless trucks and warehouse robotics will cost many thousands of teamster jobs.

If their grocery teamsters they know that the Kroger -Albertson merger could cost them their own jobs. They have lots of reasons to be unhappy because these problems are never mentioned by the union, we should all be unhappy about that.

[Guest]

All lightweights.