“Amazon Is DESPICABLE” - Teamsters Sean O’Brien BLASTS Bezos & Big Tech Exploitation
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Teamsters President Sean O’Brien calls out Amazon, Uber, and Lyft for exploiting workers through 1099 loopholes. In this PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David challenges O’Brien on what makes a “real job,” the future of unions, and whether corporate giants are America’s new enemy.
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| 0:00.0 | Who was the enemy? Who is the enemy or was the enemy? |
| 0:03.3 | Well, there's a lot of enemies out there. I mean, I'm talking specific to a teamster president or member. Who's the enemy? |
| 0:10.2 | So when I was growing up, the enemy in 1980 was the legislatures who introduced and passed bipartisan deregulation of the trucking industry. |
| 0:21.6 | That's the 400,000 jobs. |
| 0:22.9 | 400,000 jobs, yes. |
| 0:24.3 | So that was the enemy back then. |
| 0:25.7 | And it was funny. |
| 0:27.1 | People weren't calling out politicians back then. |
| 0:29.8 | You know, they weren't calling anybody out. |
| 0:31.8 | It was like, these are the most powerful people. |
| 0:33.6 | They get to do what they want. |
| 0:35.0 | My thought process is we're the most powerful people. |
| 0:39.0 | We provide the goods and services. We keep America moving. And had if I was able to roll, |
| 0:45.3 | I don't want to wish my life away, but had I been in a position I was now in 1980 when that |
| 0:51.1 | happened, I would have been fighting and kicking and screaming in the streets |
| 0:54.7 | about how bad this is for working people, how bad it was for the team. |
| 0:58.6 | At who? |
| 0:59.4 | At who? |
| 1:00.0 | At Congress, at the Senate. |
| 1:01.6 | I mean, they introduced this legislation. |
| 1:03.7 | I mean, the Kennedy is so prevalent in Massachusetts. |
| 1:07.4 | Ted Kennedy introduced a bill, bipartisan bill. |
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