Teamsters Exec Blasts Leadership For Meeting With 'Scab' Trump

Teamster Vice President At-Large John Palmer didn't hold back with how he felt about their leadership welcoming Trump for a roundtable this week.

In what looks like an effort by Trump to blunt some of the criticism from UAW President Shawn Fain, who called Trump a union buster and a scab when explaining why his union was endorsing Biden last week, aided and abetted by Teamster General President Sean O'Brien, Trump met with some of the executive board and some rank and file members and took questions for over an hour in their headquarters in Washington DC.

Palmer wrote a letter to O'Brien, which was shared on Twitter by Erik Loomis, who wrote:

WOW!!! A friend who is a Teamsters member sent me this letter from Teamsters VP John Palmer absolutely lambasting Teamsters President Sean O'Brien for meeting with Donald Trump. You don't see this kind of internal dissension coming out in the public very often!!

And, as Evan Sutton noted:

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