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Jun 11, 2026
Far Left
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, the rank-and-file reform organization operating inside the International Brotherhood of Teamsters under O'Brien's leadership, is explaining its organizing strategy in Jacobin.
TDU represents exactly the kind of worker-controlled, bottom-up union power the far left prioritizes over staff-driven nonprofit unionism, and its fight inside one of the most powerful unions in the country is a concrete site of class conflict that deserves far more attention than it receives.