Teamsters Leaders Slam Hollywood & Wall Street At Amazon Picket Line: “They Don’t Care About People”

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“Look who’s running Hollywood right now, corporate America,” declared Teamster president Sean O’Brien on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket line outside Amazon’s LA HQ.

Big corporations, they don’t care about their people. They care about the bottom line and the balance sheet,” he added with Hollywood Teamster leader Lindsay Dougherty by his side. “This is a historic moment in our industry, hasn’t happened since 1960,” Dougherty stated, noting the last time the writers and actors went on strike together when Ronald Reagan ran SAG. “But, it goes to show that workers are not happy with their current conditions…with big tech, infiltrating our industry as well as the streaming companies, we need to take back what’s ours.” “We are the largest, strongest union in the entire country,” O’Brien said of the 1.3 million Teamsters members. “We have the ability to shut this country down,” he went on to say with the combined 160,000 strong SAG-AFTRA and the 20,000 WGA members, among others in an America witnessing a union resurgence in recent years.

Out with striking scribes and actors for the first time since the latter hit the streets last week, O’Brien revealed that UPS have just reached out this morning to resume talks with the Teamsters to possibly avert a national strike next month.

The Amazon appearance by Dougherty, O’Brien, WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman and others comes almost immediately after a multi-union rally for UPS drivers in DTLA this morning.