James Hoffa

Carnage and Crime In Mexico Offer More Reasons to Keep Unsafe Trucks Off U.S. Roads

James P. Hoffa | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Mexico, James Hoffa, Labor, Nafta, Transportation, Mexican Truckers, Mexico Trucking, Business News

NAFTA was supposed to eliminate trade barriers among Canada, Mexico and the U.S. But Mexico has clearly failed to do what the deal requires it to. If a violent drug war isn't an impediment to trade, I don't know what is.

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WATCH: Breitbart Tells Unions To 'F**k Off' At Tea Party Convention

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart Unions, Video, Steve Stevlic Prostitution, Breitbart Pelosi Bitch, Teacon 2011, Chicago Tea Party, James Hoffa, Andrew Breitbart Teacon, Janeane Garofalo, Breitbart Janeane Garofalo, Unions, Steve Stevlic Chicago Tea Party, Richard Trumka, Chicago News

Andrew Breitbart helped kick off the Chicago Tea Party's TeaCon 2011 Convention in suburban Schaumburg Friday night -- and had some harsh words for un...

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Republicans Fundraising Off Of Teamster's Tea Party Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Jimmy Hoffa, Obama Labor Union, Obama Teamsters, Teamster Tea Party, Teamster James P. Hoffa, Obama Tea Party, Elections 2012, Nrsc, James Hoffa, James P. Hoffa, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Tea Party Hoffa, Obama Labor Day, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is raising money off of a labor leader's remarks telling union members to go out and...

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Global Capitalism Is Destroying the Middle Class, Say the Global Capitalists

James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: James Hoffa, Council on Foreign Relations, Labor, Imf, Teamsters, Economy, World Bank, Business News

Some of the most trusted institutions in the world are finally awakening to the dangers of unrestrained global capitalism.

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Walker's Political Theater, Brought to You By the Koch Brothers

James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: James Hoffa, Wisconsin, Koch Brothers, Labor Unions, Scott Walker, Politics News

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be among friends today when he testifies before the House Oversight Committee. Nearly half the Republican committee members receive funding from the notorious union-busters, Charles and David Koch.

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Billionaires' Coordinated Scheme to Ax Your Pay

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Labor, Economy, Middle Class, James Hoffa, Corporate Greed, Teamsters, Labor Unions, Politics News

Don't be fooled by the misleading propaganda created by billionaires and corporations for the politicians they've purchased. These proposals have nothing to do with the right to work. They're all about forcing people to work for less.

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Put an End to Sweatshops on Wheels

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Hoffa, Carl Pope, Clean Ports Act, Teamsters, Sierra Club, Jerrold Nadler, Green News

The Clean Ports Act is the singular and simplest solution to 'green' this blue-collar workforce and eliminate the sweatshops on wheels that have plagued a critical U.S. industry for too long.

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Biden Dances the Tough Dances

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, Ad Melkert, Defense Policy, Middle Class, Bob Gates, Iraq, Kosovo, Middle East Peace, Iran, John Kerry, Russia, Richard Haass, Start Treaty, Nigel Sheinwald, Joseph Biden, Palestine, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Infrastructure Investment, Labor Unions, Jobs Policies, Economic Policy, Georgia, Stanley McChrystal, Israel, James Hoffa, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Cuba, David Cameron, Nuclear Materials Summit, Politics News

With occasional blind spots aside, Biden's policy breadth is impressive compared to virtually anyone else on the Obama team. Only Bob Gates comes close to Biden's versatility -- and even there, Biden wins hands down.

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FedEx Drivers Aren't Pilots

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fedex, FAA Reauthorization Act, James Oberstar, James Hoffa, Railway Labor Act, Teamsters, Brown Bailout, Fred Smith, National Labor Relations Act, Business News

The Teamsters aren't laughing at FedEx's crude hostility toward union workers. FedEx Express pretends to be an airline because it wants to preserve the special favor it received from Congress 14 years ago.

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Jimmy Hoffa Mystery Could Be Buried With Giants Stadium

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jimmy Hoffa, Giants Stadium, Hoffa, Teamsters, New Jersey, Sean Landeta, Hoffa Giants Stadium, James Hoffa, Tony the Greek, Cold Case, New York News

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — As the story goes, former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has attended every event at Giants Stadium since 1976, buried in a ...

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The Grecian Formula

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greece Debt, Goldman Sachs, James Hoffa, Teamsters, Maria Cantwell, Financial Reform, YRC Trucking, Business News

Goldman Sachs reportedly used derivatives and other intricate financial transactions to move debt off Greece's books while making exorbitant profits.

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Goldman Sachs Driving YRC Trucking Into Bankruptcy, Hoffa Says

bloomberg.com | Pierre Paulden and Shannon D. Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Credit Default Swaps, Truckers, Andy Stern, James Hoffa, Derivatives, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, YRC Trucking, Seiu, Business News

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James Hoffa said Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is creating derivatives trades that ...

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Bloomberg and Booker Agree: We Need Cleaner Trucks at Our Ports

Rich Kassel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Newark, Diesel, Pollution, Trucks, Change to Win, Ironbound, Port Pollution, Cory Booker, Red Hook, New York City, James Hoffa, Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles, New York News

The mayors teamed up with Teamsters President James P. Hoffa to endorse federal legislation that would enable ports around the nation to adopt local green-growth programs to reduce air pollution.

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Should Mexican Trucks Be Allowed Throughout U.S.?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Inspector General, Congress, San Ysidro, Nafta, Mexican Trucks, Tariffs, Teamsters Union, Laredo, Cars, James Hoffa, Mexico, Calexico, Department of Transportation, Business News

The recent release of a Transportation Departments inspector general's office government audit has brought to a head, once again, an issue which ignites deep feelings and loyalties in the best people.

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Card Check Is Not the Solution for Pension Mismanagement

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Efca, Collective Bargaining, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Gary Shapiro, Hudson Institute, Pensions, James Hoffa, Cea, Unite Here, Unions, Seiu, Business News

The union promise of jobs and better wages is deeply alluring, but their mechanism to securing them, so-called "card check," is fundamentally flawed.

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John McCain: No Friend of the American Worker

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, John McCain, Social Security, Workers, Writers Guild of America Strike, Unfair Trade, Housing Crisis, Financial Crises, Whining, Teamsters Union, Minimum Wage, Middle-Class, Jay Leno, Phil Gramm, James Hoffa, Unemployment Benefits, Overtime, Politics News

This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against extending unemployment benefits.

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Hoffa: Dems Need To Take The Gloves Off, Or Some Union Votes Will Go To McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, John McCain, James Hoffa, Dnc, Joe Biden, Teamsters, Unions, Barack Obama, Politics News

Add James P. Hoffa to the growing list of Obama supporters rooting for tougher attacks against Republicans at the convention tonight. "We've got to st...

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