#690 Assigned Brother At Birth (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

TODAY: We give an update on Alex's goo situation and Tony makes the cowardly decision not to get jumped at his bar.

ALSO: We join Teamsters president Sean O'Brien in congratulating former UPS and Amazon exec being appointed to OSHA. Why is a boss having his reputation laundered by a labor leader? Is "former worker" a high bar to clear?

PLUS: An anonymous UPS Teamster complains that his union won't allow him to prep his route off the clock. We commend rank and file for stepping up to educate this member, discuss working off the clock as well as the merits of dealing in good faith with fellow members--even when they regurgitate anti-union propaganda.

FINALLY: We laugh at some reactionary organizing attempts within the union and remember funny hardcore band merch

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0:00.0	So I saw this tweet from the Teamsters official account, my union's official Twitter account.
0:08.6	The Teamsters Union applauds the at White House on tapping David Keeling to join the Department
0:14.9	of Labor and lead the occupational safety and health administration, OSHA.
0:19.9	Keeling worked as a part-time package handler at United Parcel Service before spending nearly 20 years with UPS.
0:26.6	Okay, interesting phrasing there.
0:29.6	Yeah, that's...
0:31.6	Because Teamsters shared this image, a graphic, you know, like a Teamsters graphic that says,
0:38.6	Teamsters applaud White House for naming former UPS worker to lead OSHA.
0:45.6	And I was like, okay, yeah, they put a driver in there.
0:49.9	They put a, you know, a porter up there or what?
0:52.8	No, they put a fucking VP, a UPS executive who was in charge of UPS's safety, as well as
1:02.6	Amazon's safety.
1:05.0	Oh, God.
1:06.9	He was an Amazon executive during the period of time when Amazon had like its most ever health lawsuits, you know, health, health claims.
1:18.2	I mean, as well as, you know, UPS.
1:21.7	Like I, I'm not just, I don't want a knee jerk sayerk say that like, well, the safety guy is management, so I can't say he's done a good job or I can't say whatever about him.
1:38.1	Like, I just, I haven't really heard anything great about our safety record.
1:45.5	Like I hear about our local and regional, like, you know, safety record.
1:49.6	But I haven't seen anything that has wowed me about UPS's approach to safety in recent years relative to years before.
2:01.2	You know, I've been an employee UPS for 19 years now.
2:06.8	And I haven't, I've seen my like safety committee do good work.
2:13.3	But that's like rank, that's like workers doing that stuff, you know?
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