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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1213306" data-attributes="member: 42270">[ATTACH]10338[/ATTACH]He was also an FBI informant and one of the highest paid IBT officials of all time; to be fair, when he was carried into that convention, he was in miserably poor health and dying from cancer. Still, the image of Presser being carried on a litter like a Roman emperor into an IBT convention is the epitome of labor corruption and one of those images that&#039;s going to haunt us for a while. TDU did some good things.. in the 1970&#039;s and 1980&#039;s. They do some solid things, now, as far as informing/educating the members, but nearly everything they publicize is misrepresented information -- at the very least -- and heavily slanted, at worst. Their entire &quot;union within a union&quot; concept is just a bad idea, in my opinion. And pushing for IRB charges on such flimsy <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> as what was said by O&#039;Brien is really grasping at straws.[ATTACH=full]10338[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1213306, member: 42270"] [ATTACH]10338.vB[/ATTACH] He was also an FBI informant and one of the highest paid IBT officials of all time; to be fair, when he was carried into that convention, he was in miserably poor health and dying from cancer. Still, the image of Presser being carried on a litter like a Roman emperor into an IBT convention is the epitome of labor corruption and one of those images that's going to haunt us for a while. TDU did some good things.. in the 1970's and 1980's. They do some solid things, now, as far as informing/educating the members, but nearly everything they publicize is misrepresented information -- at the very least -- and heavily slanted, at worst. Their entire "union within a union" concept is just a bad idea, in my opinion. And pushing for IRB charges on such flimsy [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG] as what was said by O'Brien is really grasping at straws. [ATTACH=full]10338[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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