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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 **** as what was said by O'Brien is really grasping at straws.