Leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling on the Department of Justice to block the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. unless worker protections are put in place.
Union leaders announced on Thursday that they had filed a report outlining key concerns about the $111 billion mega-transaction with the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and that they are pushing for the transaction to be blocked unless their concerns are addressed.
The union’s input is especially consequential because Teamster general president Sean O’Brien is a labor ally of President Donald Trump and previously played a role in the nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor secretary. Whether O’Brien’s opposition could sway Trump, who has his own relationship with Paramount CEO David Ellison and his billionaire father Larry Ellison, is another question.
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