The International Brotherhood of Teamsters breaks tradition by not endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential election. Will this non-endorsement impact the outcome of the election? #Teamsters #Election2020
I haven’t listened to O’Brien’s speech, so for all I know you may be right. We may both be right: these aren’t mutually exclusive. The Teamsters chauvinistically throwing others under the bus is orthogonal to my point about political leverage.
Actually it is completely relevant. Where there are people there is power. Solidarity is the currency of unionionism and the unity Solidarity provides is the only true source of any Union’s strength.
Former Teamster, 19 year UPS service provider (package car driver), currently studying Social Welfare with an emphasis on community organizing in hopes of working as a labor organizer. I don’t dabble, I think about this shit all day
The Teamsters has been anti-socialist/anti-communist ever since its forming, or close to it. Almost all US unions have been ever since the Red Scare purges. As long as that remains the case, I don’t have especially high hopes for worker solidarity, not domestically, and internationally even less so.
Orthogonal usually means, unrelated, irrelevant. Sorry if I misunderstood.
I don’t need the links.
Teamsters are still more AFL than CIO that’s for sure.
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Not believing in worker Solidarity is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. You have to build it. You have to work. I believe that people are good. That people can be better. I believe that long term unionization is our only hope against corporate dominance.
I haven’t listened to O’Brien’s speech, so for all I know you may be right. We may both be right: these aren’t mutually exclusive. The Teamsters chauvinistically throwing others under the bus is orthogonal to my point about political leverage.
Actually it is completely relevant. Where there are people there is power. Solidarity is the currency of unionionism and the unity Solidarity provides is the only true source of any Union’s strength.
Former Teamster, 19 year UPS service provider (package car driver), currently studying Social Welfare with an emphasis on community organizing in hopes of working as a labor organizer. I don’t dabble, I think about this shit all day
I didn’t say it wasn’t relevant.
The Teamsters has been anti-socialist/anti-communist ever since its forming, or close to it. Almost all US unions have been ever since the Red Scare purges. As long as that remains the case, I don’t have especially high hopes for worker solidarity, not domestically, and internationally even less so.
Orthogonal usually means, unrelated, irrelevant. Sorry if I misunderstood.
I don’t need the links.
Teamsters are still more AFL than CIO that’s for sure.
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Not believing in worker Solidarity is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. You have to build it. You have to work. I believe that people are good. That people can be better. I believe that long term unionization is our only hope against corporate dominance.
Have hope. Get out and work for change.
Yeah, I was about to edit my comment in regards to relevant/orthogonal; you were right.