Sean Spicer
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520 appearances
10 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Sean Spicer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We represent public sector. We represent healthcare. So we represent everybody from A to Z.
Yeah, teams of horses. We were predominantly a truck driving union. Yes. Started out with horse and buggy and then through evolution and technology, it was truck drivers. Deregulation crushed the trucking industry in the 80s. We've been able to rebuild and organize over the last two and a half years. But because of deregulation, we lost 400,000 teams to jobs. Wow. Back in the 80s, yes.
But, you know, we're a real progressive union. We don't have all our eggs in one basket right now. We're trying to organize Amazon, which has about 400,000 employees, both direct and this DSP model that they masquerade as not being direct employees. It's a joint employer. So we're pursuing them right now. And we also...
are organizing in the cannabis industry where there's 425,000 W2 employees nationwide. Cannabis. The guys who trim marijuana. Well, cultivate it, warehouse it, grow it, and sell it.
I would probably say 45% of our members. Really? Between UPS. I mean, UPS is our largest employer. We've got some freight. We've got DHO. Yeah, probably closer to 50%. How'd you get involved? I'm a fourth-generation Teamster from Boston, Local 25. My dad was a rank-and-file member. My grandfather was a truck driver. My great-grandfather came from Ireland. He was a Teamster as well. What did he do?
Drove a truck or a horse and buggy, I should say, probably. Really? Yeah. And what'd your dad do? My dad worked construction and then worked motion pictures. What was he like? What was he like? Yeah. Oh, he was crazy. Hilarious cartoon character. Burly guy, Charlestown guy. Hard working, worked two or three jobs. You know, just a real family person. Was a street guy as well.
You know, he was a very quiet guy. quiet man, but he was true blue to the union. Always working, making certain that, you know, he put food on the table. Great guy and died too young. We had a lot of fun with him, but I had a great relationship with my dad because I went right to work in the union when I was 18. Doing what?
I worked in a rigging company, crane company, Shaughnessy and Ahern, one of the biggest crane companies. So I was always fascinated with the team says union. You know, my dad was my best friend and I have an older brother and a younger brother, and they're both on the Teamsters Union, but I was the one that always really liked trucks. I love tractor trailers. I love driving them.
But I loved going to the Sunday meeting with them. When I was eight or nine years old, I would go to Local 25 in Charlestown. Both my parents grew up there. My mother grew up in the projects. And I just remember being fascinated by the camaraderie of the Team Sejunion. I remember watching Billy McCarthy, who was our general president out of Local 25 eventually.
I just remember him being larger than life. And the Team Sejunion was so prevalent in my family. I'm like, you know, I'd go to school with these kids. I want to be a lawyer. I want to be a doctor. I'm like, I want to be a truck driver for the Team Sejunion. And that's everything I want to do was just because I learned it around the dinner table.
I was so proud because everything we had in our entire life was because of the union. And that organization, through the good times and the bad times, there were a lot of bad times, that organization never waived it on my family. And I'm like, if I ever get an opportunity, this is what I want to do. And I just moved up through the ranks.
Yeah, I mean, I think we're on an anomaly now. I mean, I have friends at my age, you know, that went to college. And look, I did very well by the union. I always worked. I worked seven days a week. 12, 13 hours a day, got laid off, hustled, whatever needed to be done. Did you not go to college? I went for a semester. I played football at UMass for one semester. Good for you.
I have my friends that went to school, and they graduated early 90s, chased the dot-com era, and they chased a lot of money. Some of them were in college. you know, insurance, whatever, but they were switching jobs every four or five years. There was no continuity. And they may have made a little bit more money.
I had a four-year head start on a lot of these people, and I bought houses and everything else. But, you know, they were always switching jobs. And I remember an old-timer saying to me, stay with the union, stay the course. It's not a marathon. It's not a sprint. It's a marathon. And today, like, the same friends... You take a snapshot of their lives.
They got the big houses, two SUVs, but they don't have pensions. They're paying 75% towards their medical. It looks great. The snapshot looks great.
Right. And it's never going to change for us. Like you said, it's old school, old school values. You learn that around the dinner table. Don't extend over your means. You know, stay true blue. It's going to pay off at some point in time. And I think, to your point, you know, there's not much of that left anymore. We've got to kind of switch gears and do a revisit.
Oh yeah, yeah, I knew Billy Bulger, yeah. So where my father and my mother are from, Charlestown, it's a white Irish Catholic community. Then over the bridge was the North End. And then you had South Boston, which was white Irish Catholic. The colony projects? Yeah, old colony projects. My mother grew up in the Bunker Hill projects.
So, yeah, we were familiar with the whole Bulger tale because some of it's not true. But, yeah, I mean, they were pretty powerful people, Billy Bulger.
Yeah, I was. I was like, okay. Well, they caught him, but the government knew where he was the whole time. I'm sure that's true. There's no doubt. Talked to my dad about it. It was funny, though. The government didn't want him to be found. I believe that. It's 110% true. Have you talked to my dad about this? No, but I mean, growing up there, it's funny.
You know, when you grow up in that area, you know, and you talk to people around the country, you know, they'll always say something, you know, obviously, why are you bolder or whatever. He was not a good guy.
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