Teamsters chief O’Brien invited to testify before Senate HELP Committee

Exclusive: Less than two years ago, the head of the Teamsters team, Shawn Operation and Republican Senator in Oklahoma, Marcin Molin, came to strikes during the hearing of the Health, Education and Pensions Committee in the Senate in the Capitol Hill, and the long -term rift between the Republican Party and the organized employment.

On Friday, the same assistance committee, led by Republicans now, who kept a majority in the Senate, extended an invitation to O’Brien to testify in a upcoming hearing on labor laws.

The Chairman of the Assistant Committee, Bill Cassidy, described R. La. O’Brien as an “important voice in conversation” about work, pointing to his role as a “union leader who represents more than a million workers.”

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Cassidy’s invitation comes after the Teamsters team in September 2024 not to support a presidential candidate – the first time that the Federation has made it since 1996 – and followed the statements of O’Brien at the Republican National congress for the past year, which is the first time in the history that the leader of the organization RNC addresses.

The head of the Teamsters Seon Operation team at the Republican National Congress at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwoki, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The session, which is scheduled to take place next Wednesday, as well as O’Brien’s invitation to it, is a symbol of the slow crawling of the Republican Party to embrace parts of the union message from the working class that would have been turning its heads even half a decade before.

Cassidy perch on the Senate Committee, which supervises the Labor and Retired Pensions Party, gave the Republic of Louisiana a unique role in managing this transformation. The committee is often located in the center of the gap between the supporters of the popular swing of the party and those that are still skeptical.

Bill Cassidy, R does not. He is the Chairman of the Senate Assistance Committee. (Kevin Lietsch/Getty Images)

At the conference 119, the Senate Assistance Committee has opened investigations in major companies for customer mistreatment and led the “enhancement of interest in the workplace for independent workers.”

In the Judicial Committee of the Senate, Senator Josh Holie, R-MO, showed a distance from a Republican party one day, fully asserting the business through the pace of companies executives with questions during the Congress hearing. Meanwhile, Labor Minister Donald Trump, Lori Chavez-Treid, was strongly supported by organized working groups, including the Operen team.

Senator Josh Holie, a Republican from Missouri, to the left, on the metro of the Senate in the Capitol in the United States on July 29, 2025. (Kihart House/Getti Emayiz)

However, for all Hawly and Chevies-Djadirer, the Republican Party continues to keep its roots in Wall Street and in America-which makes the party’s attempt to dip its toes to a supporter of the icon is a tight effort that often includes balancing support from the electoral districts whose interests are in direct competition.

Before the Vice President became the Senator at the time, JD Vance visited workers in the amazing cars field to show support for their cause. Before joining Congress, Sens rose. Rick Scott, R-FLA, Dave McCormick, R-PA. , Managing a large health care company and one of the most prominent hedge funds in America, respectively.

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It is the Republicans in Molin who asked O’Brien to testify next week that the Republican Party has quickly changed the melody of work, especially in the wake of the presidential elections that witnessed the Republicans supported by the acquisition between groups that were traditionally reliable sources of democratic support.

In 2023, Operen and Mullen – who is still a member of the committee and will be present to the testimony of the Labor Party leader on Wednesday – threw insults to each other during a hearing entitled “Standing against the greed of companies: how unions improve the lives of working families.”

Senator Marcin Mullen, Raukla, speaks to correspondents upon arrival at Capitol to vote on December 6, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Although the degree of quarrel may have shocked the spectators, the participants were a surprise to preserve nothing. Three years ago, the O’Brien team issued a resounding support for the presidential campaign of the then-candidate-Walking with the group of the support of the Democrats in every presidential election during the twenty-first century.

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In a wonderful session of the hearing of the congress full of wealth, Moulin, who said in a former social media publication, said “a strong man” and challenge his interview “anywhere, at any time of cowboy”, the union president refused in an explosive exchange.

“This is a time. This is a place,” Molin has distorted in O’Brien. “You want to run your mouth. We can be adults. We can finish it here.”

The head of the Teamsters Seon Operation team was a fiery exchange with Senator Marcin Molin, RC Ocker, in 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Thanks to the timely intervention by the then-president of the committee, Bernie Sanders, I-VT. The two avoided a physical confrontation in the committee’s hall, and eventually amended during the Chavez-Tremer confirmation earlier this year.

On Wednesday, Opion will witness alongside Marvin Kaplan, the former head of the National Council for Labor Relations, and Rachel Gardrler, an old research colleague at the Heritage Foundation.