Questions about the role newly elected Teamsters president Sean O’Brien played in a thuggish 2014 labor dispute on the Boston set of Top Chef are still dogging him, resurfacing recently in the run-…
and “felt threatened.” The Teamsters, she said, “had slashed the tires of a bunch of cars,” and “people were afraid to drive home alone.”
On cross-examination, he said that one of the Teamsters said in a heavy Boston accent, “Hey pickle, who you got in your car, pickle? Who’s that pretty lady in the car?” He then asked the defense attorney, “Do you know what ’pickle’ means? That means ‘fag.’” Another producer on the show, Justin Rae Barnes, testified in court that the four defendants were “really aggressive, yelling in our faces. … I was scared to death, to be honest.” Several members of the crew were taking photos of the encounter, but she said she didn’t take any pictures “because I didn’t want to die that day.”
O’Brien, who was not on hand for the picketing, later told the police that he had nothing to do with it. According to a police report, he told the cops that “he has the same concerns as we do regarding the incident. He also stated what happened was not a planned event through Local 25. There were never any signups for an organized picket line in Milton againstWhatever union members that were causing the problems in Milton came on their own.
In the end, that might have won the case for the defendants. “If the Teamsters had this bad purpose – to extort in order to get no-show jobs – that would have been the place for it to happen,” defense attorney Kevin Barron said in his closing argument. “But it didn’t. It was money offered, money refused.” And that, he said, is “the gaping hole in the government’s case.”
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