From Sean O’Brien’s office in Washington DC, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has a direct view of the U.S. Capitol complex.
Along with the physical proximity, O’Brien also has a direct link to the corridors of power – as well as a willingness to confront it.
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This was demonstrated during a testy Senate committee hearing in March, when O’Brien blasted both corporate executives and federal lawmakers for allowing the “repeated abuse of American workers.”
And, as actions last month in Chicago showed, under O’Brien, the Teamsters are also more cannabis friendly than ever before – and just as confrontational with multistate operators as their leader was with online shopping behemoth Amazon and coffee giant Starbucks.
Over the past month, both the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers – the two most prominent unions active in cannabis – have notched what
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