Teamsters' President Sean O'Brien Shares 'Inside Baseball' Into NLRB and PRO Act Machinations in DC
"The PRO Act was going to be used as a political pawn."
Posted by Peter List, Editor | March 5, 2025
On his Better Bad Ideas podcast, which aired on Wednesday1, International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien interviewed Marianne Williamson, an author, speaker, and political activist who ran for U.S. President in 2020 as a Democrat.
While much of the conversation was about Williamson and her foray into politics, near the end, O’Brien and Williamson (who despises current President Trump and refers to him as a “threat to Democracy”) got into an interesting exchange about the Republicans’ record on unions, the National Labor Relations Board, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and the PRO Act.
When Williamson goes after Trump for “destroying” the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by firing Gwynne Wilcox, O’Brien explains the “inside baseball” being played inside Washington, explaining to Williamson how the “PRO Act was going to be used as a political pawn” (by Democrats).
O’Brien then explains how the Teamsters are working with Democrats and Republicans to enact a “version” of the PRO Act and how his union avoids using the NLRB.
O’Brien also talks about the federal layoffs, as well as the Biden Administration failing to extend a federal loan that may have kept Yellow Freight open.
Watch the whole exchange here:
Although some of the information (e.g., Democrats’ deregulation of the Trucking Industry, the reason the Teamsters did not endorse Kamala Harris, etc.) O’Brien has shared previously. However, you can watch the whole interview here.
It is unclear when this was recorded, as both O’Brien and Williamson refer to what may have been Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s Senate hearing—presumable from two weeks ago.
Sean O'brien is a SCAB POS!