President Biden & Democrats saved 325,000 Teamster pensions with 0
Republican votes. All support for the PRO (union) Act is Democratic. Yet,
the Teamsters may stay neutral in 2024?

[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see Sean O'Brien standing with President Biden.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Teamsters President Sean O’Brien: No 2024 neutrality if he can’t
get Trump and Republicans to match the Democratic Party’s bold support for
workers. SIGN HERE.

You may have heard Monday’s vibrant rallying cry for workers and unions by
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien.

It was a head scratcher because he gave it at the Republican National
Convention, in front of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans who all
oppose pro-union legislation, oppose higher wages and workplace safety,
and support cuts to Social Security!

Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would ban some unions and strip rights from
others. 50,000 civil servants could be fired and replaced by political
Trump lackeys – a hostile takeover of the government.

Meanwhile, President Biden and Democrats saved 325,000 Teamster pensions
with the American Rescue Plan, which every Republican opposed. Democrats
during the Biden years have had the strongest pro-union record in
generations – according to the AFL-CIO and Bernie.

We have no objection to O’Brien speaking at the Republican convention. But
he’s actively participating in 2024 misinformation by giving his stamp to
Trump without calling on him to match the Democratic Party’s strong
pro-worker agenda. It’s even worse that he threatens to keep the Teamsters
neutral in 2024, signaling that the parties are the same when he knows
better. Raw misinformation.

We’ve never petitioned a major union before, but the stakes are too huge
to be silent: [ [link removed] ]Tell Teamsters President Sean O’Brien it is
misinformation to stay neutral in 2024 if Donald Trump and Republicans
won’t publicly match the Democratic Party’s strong pro-worker agenda –
especially after Republicans have spent decades undermining workers and
unions. SIGN HERE.

We’re sure Donald Trump slapped O’Brien’s back after the speech. Trump
wins if he doesn’t actually need to stand with workers in order to bask in
the glow of a respected union leader.

Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, fakes that he’s pro-worker. But in
reality, his Senate campaign was bankrolled by anti-union right-wing
billionaire Peter Thiel. All 48 senators who support the landmark PRO
(union) Act are Democratic – Vance and every other Republican opposes it.
And Vance earned a ZERO on his AFL-CIO legislative scorecard.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Teamsters: Staying neutral in 2024 misinforms voters about who
stands with workers.

Here are some of the things O’Brien said at the RNC, all of which are
Democratic Party priorities and none of which are Trump Republican
priorities:

"We need corporate welfare reform. Under our current system, massive
companies like Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and Walmart take zero responsibilities
for the workers they employ. These companies offer no real health
insurance, no retirement benefits, no pay leave, relying on underfunded
public assistance. And who foots the bill? The individual taxpayer."

"It's only when Americans band together in democratic unions that we win
real improvements on wages, benefits, and working conditions."

"Labor law must be reformed. Americans vote for a union, but can never get
a union contract. Companies fire workers who try to join unions, and hide
behind toothless laws that are meant to protect working people, but are
manipulated to benefit corporations. This is economic terrorism."

"We need legal protections that make it safer for workers to get a
contract. We must stop corporations from abandoning local communities to
inflate their bottom line. We need meaningful bankruptcy reform today."

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien: It is
misinformation to stay neutral in 2024 if Donald Trump and Republicans
won’t publicly match the Democratic Party’s strong pro-worker agenda –
especially after Republicans have spent decades undermining workers and
unions. SIGN HERE.

Thanks for standing with workers – and helping to save democracy in 2024.

-- The PCCC Team

 

 

 


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