International Brotherhood of Teamsters

... we saw the successes in Minneapolis came out of the uprisings after George Floyd was murdered, which came themselves out of the, you know, community organizing around the American Indian movement in the late '60s and '70s.

And also the Teamster rebellion in 1934, and a huge history of labor organizing.

Absolutely.

L- l- labor, labor-

I don't think you're gonna be able to replace 2,000 nurses.

[laughs] But, uh, sticking with New England, we've got, uh, but moving out of healthcare, we've got some awesome local news for me, uh, here in Providence, Rhode Island, where our local Amazon delivery drivers have become the latest group to unionize with the Teamsters this week.

Nice.

Teamsters Local 251 announced that almost 100 delivery drivers at Amazon's DRI1 facility here in Providence, the company's largest last mile delivery center in our postage stamp sized state, marched on the boss this past Monday, September 7th, to demand that the company recognize their union and begin bargaining a first contract.

Fred German, an Amazon driver at the DR1 facility and a new member of Teamsters Local 251, said in a statement from the union, quote, "We work for one of the richest companies on the planet, but they won't give us a livable wage.

They ignore our safety concerns and then say we don't even work for them.

We have had enough.

We're proud to join the Teamsters and Amazon workers across the country demanding we get treated with the respect every human being deserves." End quote.

I've got to go get this.

I saw a documentary over the weekend about the mob and Crazy Joe Gallo's testimony before the— senate subcommittee there's an arkansas guy running this senate subcommittee on mafia influence and the teamsters union and crazy joe gallo's testimony wait till you hear it it'll sound eerily familiar to something that just happened over the last month or two but you have a good morning sir

keep doing it have you a father and mother i respectfully declined the answer Because I honestly believe my answer might tend

to incriminate me.

My first role was a first line manager.

I came out of school and learned how to manage people that were all as old as my father, that were teamsters, that drove trucks and delivered Pepsi.

And they had very good systems in this business.

And I was fortunate enough to join a company that frankly taught great skills.

You need boots on the ground.

Speaking of boots on the ground, did you see the Teamsters warning? Sean O'Brien is already talking about a UPS strike for 2028.

Two years away, and he's already throwing down the gauntlet.

That's

Nice.

And the Teamsters are such a wonderful organization-

Sure, they've-

... that his job was waiting for him when he got out.

But a little background on me, for those that may not know, is I grew up in a unionist family.

Majority of my family were members of Teamsters Local 399, which is a Hollywood division.

They drive trucks and trailers for movies and TV shows.

And a lot of many of my other immediate and extended family members are a part of Teamsters Local 996. which is a Hawaii local, but they would also work on movies and TV shows.

So I grew up in the unionist family.

I was raised to join a unionized workforce.

In fact, my grandfather's brother, who is kind of one of my inspirations of getting into the union, He was a principal officer.

So in the Teamsters, at least in that local, the secretary treasurer is ahead of the local there.

Um, I got my chauffeur's license back in the early '80s.

Uh, my great-grandfather, w- who I got to know as a young child, he was one of the original Teamsters before the Teamsters ever became Teamsters.

He was hauling general freight in, uh, Utah with horse and wagon.

As a young man, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, and my father suggested, "Hey, go get your, go learn to drive a truck, until you decide what you wanna do." And here it is.