Sean Spicer
speaker
520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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Those are the people I serve instead of the middle class the way it used to be 50 years ago. So we know that we would have got tremendous pushback.
Yeah, well, that was, you know, that was the vindictive side of the Democratic Party. And, you know, I'm a Democrat, but, you know, I'm going to call balls to strikes. You know, they haven't done shit for us. And when we didn't get invited, it's a funny story because. Two weeks prior to us speaking at the RNC, you know, we didn't hide from the fact that we were going to speak there.
Listen, I tell everybody all the time, if I get a venue to highlight how valuable our organization is, the Teamsters Union, to the entire country, I will take any and all venues to do that. Good. So two weeks prior to that, Chuck Schumer asked me to meet with him. And I meet with him, and he wants $550,000 for the Super PAC for the Senate races. No problem.
And I said, look, I'm speaking at the RNC. He's like, oh, great job. You know, that's good. You should represent your members. Day after I give that speech at the RNC, he gets on Twitter and starts talking shit about my speech. Remember who fixed your pensions. And I'm like, this guy's a fucking joke. Like, why would you do this?
Two weeks prior, you're telling me when you're taking a $550,000 super PAC check, you know, that's great. It's great for your members. You know, that's good. And then you want to get on Twitter like a tough guy and, you know, throw shit out there. Why didn't he just call you? Well, because they don't like confrontation. They don't want to hear the truth.
When he said, you know, we fixed your pensions, that gave me an opportunity to say, you're the same guy in the same party that 40 years ago embraced, endorsed, and signed off on deregulation in the trucking industry, which we lost 400,000 jobs in 1980. Ted Kennedy put the bill forward. Joe Biden signed off on it as a senator or as a representative.
Yeah, senator, right? So- They said, we fixed your pension. And I said, yeah, you did fix a pension. And I use this scenario all the time. I'm like, I played street hockey in my neighborhood, 1980. I broke my mother's window. For 40 years, she's asked me to fix her window. And I finally fix it 40 years later. Should I look for accolades for a problem that I helped create? Yeah.
And so we went back and forth. It even got to a point, he showed up at our building. Prior to the election, we had a bipartisan meeting in the hallway of the IBT. And it was attended by a lot of Republican senators, a lot of Republican congressmen. Because look, our goal is to work across the aisle to solve problems. He walks in with his, you know, the Capitol police who do a great job.
Walks in late and he sticks his crooked finger in my face and he says, I fixed your pensions. I said, you should have, you broke them. And we get into it pretty hard. And, you know, he starts like yelling at me. I go, buddy, listen, there's only one guy that can yell at me. We buried him 12 years ago. I go, and I go, you want to get into this right here, right now? We'll get into it.
You're talking about your dad. Yeah, I'm talking about my dad, right? And so Schumer's like, we fixed your pension. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to name the things you haven't done for us. When our members were on strike at the rail, you didn't support us. You didn't put a letter of support in there.
When we were fighting with UPS in the middle of the street, you wouldn't sign off on a support letter. When we took on Amazon, which we're taking on now, you wouldn't support our efforts in Amazon. I said, you want me to keep going?
Because you can tell me what you've done, the one thing you've done for me and my union and my members, but I'm going to tell you all the things you haven't done for us. And then he's like, well, I really want this relationship. I'm like, we're done, we're done. And that was it. He left. And then I'm working out at the building on election day. This is great.
And look, I'm not a person that says, I told you so, or whatever the case is. He called, my phone rings. There's only two people that call me from a private line. Sometimes it's a commander in chief and someone else. So phone rings and I answer it. And it's Chuck Schumer. And like dejected tone. It was, you know, hi, Sean. I'm like, hey, how you doing? He goes, good, Chuck Schumer.
I'm like, okay, what do you want? He's like, I just want to thank you for supporting, you know, the Super PAC. I go, that was like four months ago. And he says, well, yeah, I just want to thank you. And I'm like, okay, great. It was like a dejected tone. And I was like, I got off the stand master and I'm like, this is crazy. But it is what it is. Why was he doing that, I wonder? I have no idea.
No idea. Do you think he knew they were going to get creamed? I think he knew they were getting crushed that day. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know how people, you know, so astute, been around so long in politics, couldn't see that coming. Was it obvious to you? Oh, it was very obvious to us, yes. Just by the polling we were doing.
And look, the one thing that we do, and this is a gauge that I pride our leadership on, we don't sit in our office and research all these polls, research all these opinions. The opinions that matter to me are the 1.3 million members that we represent. My general secretary and treasurer and myself are out every single day in workplaces talking to members.
asking them their opinions, find out exactly what their struggles are in the workplace. And then you get into always into politics, you know, this presidential election. And just the one-on-one conversations. We're in three different states three times a week and multiple industries that we represent.
And when you're talking to people, we weren't just talking to people in blue states, we were talking to people in red states all over the country. And we knew just from, you know, the rhetoric out there from our members that, you know, they weren't voting Democrat. And that's when we started designing this, you know, real extensive program and that included the rank and file members.
So we knew that was coming.
So we represent 1.3 million members. The easiest way to understand it is we represent airline pilots to zookeepers and everybody in between. We represent UPS as our largest employer. We have 340,000 members at UPS. We represent the grocery industry, warehousing. We represent airline pilots. We represent airline mechanics. We represent motion picture. We represent trade shows.
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