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🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Howdy folks, Amber here. |
0:03.3 | Now, do you maybe remember an interview I did very recently with Teamster Matt Maney? |
0:12.2 | Something about a world historic election coming up with Teamster's leadership, huge |
0:18.2 | changing the guard, that kind of thing. |
0:20.5 | Well, they had their election and new leadership will take the will of the Teamster's Union |
0:25.8 | on March 22nd. |
0:27.9 | Here's elected Sean O'Brien, Fred Zuckerman and the insurgent Teamster's United slate |
0:33.0 | to lead the 1.2 million member union over the old guard slate, which was of course assembled |
0:39.4 | by outgoing Teamster president and business unionist extraordinaire James Huffa Jr. |
0:45.8 | Little Jimmy. |
0:47.9 | The Teamster's United Victory was powered by years. |
0:50.6 | And I mean, years and years and years of grassroots organizing. |
0:54.0 | It takes a no small part to an organization you may have heard me mention on the show, |
0:59.5 | roughly like 8,000 times in my duration podcasting. |
1:05.8 | Teamsters for a Democratic Union, TDU for short. |
1:08.8 | Now, TDU is a nationwide network of rank and file Teamsters who want to take back the |
1:12.8 | union and get the labor movement back in fighting shape. |
1:16.9 | TDU in the Teamsters United campaign are all about going on the offense. |
1:21.9 | And this is North America's most powerful union. |
1:24.0 | We've got deeper to every point in the supply chain. |
1:27.1 | We're talking package delivery, trucking, warehousing, rails and airlines. |
1:34.1 | So in 17 months, the largest union contract in the country covering more than 300,000 |
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