Alex Press interviewed Anthony Rosario, an organizer with Teamsters Local 804 and Teamsters for a Democratic Union, for Jacobin. Rosario said:
Corporations need to take a look at what’s happening. I know that they don’t care, but they have to know that the working-class people are not taking shit anymore. We’re just not. We’re standing up and we’re fighting for what we deserve. When I listened to Shawn Fain at the TDU convention and he said that without TDU there would be no Shawn Fain, without TDU there would be no UAWD, without TDU there would be no stand-up strike? I was completely blown away by his words.
It meant so much to all the members of TDU and the rank-and-filers who have put so much into it over the years. Since 1976, TDU has been fighting corruption in the unions and the labor movement, and to see that this ragtag grassroots organization that was barely breaking even at some of these conventions become such a powerhouse in the labor movement feels so good.
I joined TDU in 2016, when it was just starting to build momentum toward what it is now. I’ve been a part of so many of these movements, and it’s like I’m a grain of sand on this beach, watching all these actions take place. It’s just been thrilling. I’m going to be fifty in March, and I’ve never seen this kind of unity and work being done.
Read more in Jacobin.