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RandySF

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Wed Aug 14, 2024, 06:47 AM Aug 2024

Teamsters Chief Hits Back at Trump's Remarks [View all]

“International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien made a splash last month speaking at the Republican National Convention, and his organization now stands alone among America’s largest unions in withholding an endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harrris,” Politico reports.

“But Donald Trump’s comments to Elon Musk Monday night suggesting that striking workers ought to be summarily fired have inflamed organized labor — and put O’Brien on the spot.”

He responded last night: “Firing workers for organizing, striking, and exercising their rights as Americans is economic terrorism,”





https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/14/teamsters-chief-hits-back-at-trumps-remarks/

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