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Sean O'Brien: “Corporate vultures buy up companies like Yellow Freight with…”

Featuring: Sean O'Brien, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters | National

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Published | Video Starts at 14:32

We need legal protections that make it safer for workers to get a contract. We must stop corporations from abandoning local communities to inflate their bottom line. We need meaningful bankruptcy reform. Today, Corporate vultures buy up companies like Yellow Freight with the intent of driving them into bankruptcy. and feasting on their remains. The courts leave workers begging for crumbs as third tier creditors. Labor law must be reformed. Americans vote for a union but can never get a union contract. (14:32–14:39)

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