Slicing and Dicing at GM and Chrysler
When it comes to carhaul drivers, automakers are failing to meet their end of the bailout bargain and taxpayers should hold them accountable.
When it comes to carhaul drivers, automakers are failing to meet their end of the bailout bargain and taxpayers should hold them accountable.
Chicago Tribune | John Byrne | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
Nearly 80 Teamsters truck drivers are suing the city after losing their jobs this summer as part of Mayor Richard Daley's budget-cutting moves....
James P. Hoffa | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
John Mackey's irresponsible op-ed will no doubt cost Whole Foods dearly in lost customer loyalty. I just hope Whole Foods recognizes that going it alone isn't a feasible way to run a business or a country.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE 431 city workers were laid off Wednesday after two unions and the Daley administration were unable to reach an agreement by a 5 p.m. deadline,...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
FedEx CEO Fred Smith is always full of surprises. First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviat...
AP | JEFF BAENEN | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
MINNEAPOLIS — The Teamsters union is threatening a strike it says would likely shut down the Star Tribune if the newspaper, which is in bankrupt...
Bret Caldwell | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
James P. Hoffa | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
In 2005, California Congresswoman Hilda Solis contributed $15,000 of her own campaign money to fund a successful movement to raise the minimum wage in California.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
Letterman showed a feed of McCain as he was getting made up for his interview with Katie Couric -- and then asked McCain if he needed a ride to the airport.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
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...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
In an effort to push their anti-worker agenda, the corporate behemoth has begun herding its employees into mandatory meetings where the topic is simple and clear -- vote Republican, or else.
Carl Pope | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
Teamster President James P. Hoffa put his union solidly back on the side of the premise that the future of both America's economy and its environment lies in a new, clean economy.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
For the past 15 years, anyone who opposed a so-called "free trade agreement" was labeled a protectionist. And that was the end of the story. The TRADE Act allows us to present an alternative.
Kelly Candaele | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
Just as we are on the precipice of a major political realignment, a possible resurgence of progressive politics in Washington, the backbone of that movement -- organized labor -- is engaged in a self-destructive internal battle.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
Just as we are on the precipice of a major political realignment, a possible resurgence of progressive politics in Washington, the backbone of that movement -- organized labor -- is engaged in a self-destructive internal battle.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business