Minion Death Cult - #690 Assigned Brother At Birth (preview) Aired: 2025-02-20 Duration: 05:58 === Former UPS Worker Leads OSHA (04:26) === [00:00:00] So, I saw this tweet from the Teamsters official account, my union's official Twitter account. [00:00:08] The Teamsters union applauds the at White House on tapping David Keeling to join the Department of Labor and lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA. Keeling worked as a part-time package handler at United Parcel Service before spending nearly 20 years with UPS. Okay, interesting phrasing there. [00:00:29] Yeah, that's... [00:00:32] Because Teamsters shared this image, a graphic, you know, like a Teamsters graphic that says, Teamsters applaud White House for naming former UPS worker to lead OSHA. And I was like, okay, yeah, they put a driver in there, they put a, you know, a porter up there, or what? [00:00:52] No, they put a fucking VP, a UPS... Who was in charge of UPS's safety, as well as Amazon's safety. [00:01:04] Oh, God! [00:01:06] He was an Amazon executive during the period of time when Amazon had its most ever health lawsuits, health claims, as well as UPS. I don't want to knee-jerk say that, [00:01:26] well, The safety guy is management, so I can't say he's done a good job or I can't say whatever about him. [00:01:39] I haven't really heard anything great about our safety record. [00:01:45] I hear about our local and regional safety record, but I haven't seen anything that... [00:01:53] It has wowed me about UPS's approach to safety in recent years relative to years before. [00:02:01] I've been an employee at UPS for 19 years now. [00:02:07] I've seen my safety committee do good work. [00:02:13] That's like workers doing that stuff. [00:02:18] I just... [00:02:20] It's very weird to frame it as a former worker when he worked as a part-timer for a year. [00:02:30] I don't know. [00:02:31] I'm assuming that was separate from his run. [00:02:33] It's not like he got promoted. [00:02:35] It would be like me claiming being a former UPS worker because I did work there for three months. [00:02:42] Right. [00:02:43] Well, you can claim that for sure because you didn't do anything that cancels it out. [00:02:50] No, but that did not lead to my position as a VP. I don't think he got promoted from there. [00:02:58] I'm sure there's a gap between. [00:03:00] It was coincidental that he worked there earlier and then came back probably. [00:03:05] Does that sound right? [00:03:06] Yeah, I mean, I don't know his exact tenure, but it's funny the framing this way because it's like we have If we don't have evidence specifically of him doing a poor job at UPS, [00:03:22] although I'm sure we had a lot of injuries, we had many heat deaths, we were fined by OSHA itself for not providing air conditioning or not providing cooling in package cars. [00:03:37] That was under his tenure. [00:03:40] And then we have his tenure with Amazon where they saw egregious violations and were fined. [00:03:48] And I don't know that this is something that we have to applaud. [00:03:51] You know, I... It's weird. [00:03:56] It's weird calling a management guy a worker. [00:04:00] Even though it says former worker, like treating him like he's a worker. [00:04:04] Like, you can like the guy. [00:04:07] He can be a good manager, but that doesn't make him a worker. [00:04:10] That doesn't mean he should get credit for being a worker or whatever. === Teamster's Tweet Draws Skepticism (01:46) === [00:04:13] I don't know. [00:04:14] If I saw this guy in management and I saw him actually implement consideration for the workers because he... [00:04:22] Then I would sing a different tune. [00:04:24] I haven't seen any of that. [00:04:26] And somebody could show me something good he's done as safety exec or whatever. [00:04:33] But I just... [00:04:34] It's still somebody that we need to be putting pressure on. [00:04:41] To do good things, not laundering their reputation. [00:04:47] And I don't know. [00:04:48] I don't know that you, as the president of the Teamsters, can make an argument that putting out this tweet somehow gains the members anything. [00:05:00] Is the Trump administration going to be nicer to us because we play ball on... [00:05:08] This OSHA nominee? [00:05:10] Is that part of some agreement that Sean O'Brien has made? [00:05:17] I don't know what's going on here. [00:05:21] It seems very weird. [00:05:22] To me, it's even weirder than appearing at the RNC. Also, it would have been different if they just said... [00:05:29] It doesn't talk about him being a teamster, actually. [00:05:34] Does it mention him being a teamster here? [00:05:37] No. [00:05:38] Yeah, yeah. [00:05:39] Because if they would have just been like... [00:05:42] Former Teamster. [00:05:43] Yeah, 20-year Teamster is now... [00:05:45] That would have been kind of something, you know? [00:05:48] Sure, yeah. [00:05:48] But that's not what's happening here. [00:05:50] And if you do it for him, if you do the work for him where you're saying, hey, he's just a worker, that means he gets to do it now.