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Sean O'Brien

The Teamsters will not endorse Kamala Harris. Why?

John Fea   |  September 20, 2024

We learned yesterday that the Teamsters will not endorse any candidate for President. Some of you will remember that Teamster President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention in July. The union also just released this poll: Over at […]

The GOP invited the head of the Teamsters to speak. The GOP is opposed to organized labor.

John Fea   |  July 17, 2024

Yes, Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Yes, Republicans still hate labor. Timothy Noah explains at The New Republic: Let’s be clear. The Republican Party despises labor unions. Until recently it made little effort to hide […]

Sean O’Brien’s “return to Gompers”

John Fea   |  July 17, 2024

As we have noted here, Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, spoke Monday night at the TNC (Trump National Convention) in Milwaukee. We covered that speech here and here. Over at Jacobin, Dustin Guastella, the director […]

Jonah Goldberg: “I wish the Teamsters president would call for Tesla to be unionized, just to see what happens.”

John Fea   |  July 16, 2024

Commentator Jonah Goldberg had the line of the night: Here is some context. Donald Trump gave the keynote address on night one of the GOP convention to Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters. O’Brien was not there to endorse […]

Some of the biggest congressional fights in U.S. history

John Fea   |  November 16, 2023

Two fights almost broke-out this week on Capitol Hill. You can read all about them here. The most famous fight in congressional history happened in 1856 when Preston Brooks of South Carolina caned Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate […]