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MSNBC Backs Teamsters Strike Against UPS Despite Industry-Leading Pay

July 7th, 2023 4:44 PM

In stark contrast to CNN the previous day, Friday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC sided with the Teamsters union as they threatened to go on strike against UPS. Omitting the fact that UPS workers already led the industry in compensation, MSNBC hosts Willie Geist, Jonathan Lemire, and Al Sharpton boasted about Teamsters president Sean O’Brien and let him lead the narrative on why they weren’t…

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CNN’s Blackwell Presses Teamsters on Striking Despite Top-Dollar Pay

July 6th, 2023 5:38 PM

This Thursday on CNN This Morning, anchor Victor Blackwell interviewed Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who plan to strike if UPS does not meet their demands in a contract negotiation. Pointing out that UPS already heads the industry in pay, Blackwell pressed O’Brien on why the strike was necessary and how it could hurt UPS drivers, which…

'Bash That Pretty Face In': Bravo's Boston 'Top Chef' Taping Marred By

August 21st, 2014 1:21 PM
The Boston Herald reports that “Teamsters Local 25 — the crew that drives for most TV and movie productions made in Massachusetts — reportedly harassed and threatened” the cast and crew of Bravo’s “Top Chef” when they taped their latest season in the area and used non-union drivers. Unions rarely make national news, and this will probably be no exception. What about "Entertainment Tonight" or "…

MSM Wall of Silence on Union Criticism of ObamaCare

July 19th, 2013 10:01 AM
CNN found time to broadcast a story about a "neighbor from hell" but as to harsh labor union criticism of "healthcare from hell," not a word. Not only is CNN maintaining a wall of silence on union opposition, expressed in a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi,  to ObamaCare but pretty much the rest of the mainstream media, with the notable exceptions of the Wall Street Journal and Fox News,…