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Teamsters Dumps Old Union Boss Family
2008-08-22 21:57:00 -By Warner Todd Huston James Hoffa, Jr. is trying to make it look like he is reforming the Teamsters by forcing out Robert Hogan, former President of Teamsters Local 714, a member of a long time, corruption prone union family. The IRB alleged that Hogan had acted against the best interests of union members by hiring ...
By: Publius Forum
Obama and the Teamsters Union
2008-05-07 05:52:00 While Obama was the long shot, he suggested that, as president, he's interfere to help the Teamsters union bring back corruption or, as they insist, reduce costs. I don't think it's too much of a big deal, but it does further make it harder to swallow his anti-special interest, "new politics" lines.Powered by b2evolution.
By: Asymmetric
Teamsters: We Promise not to use Guns and Knives (wink, wink)
2008-05-01 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston George Lenard has a great little post at his "George's Employment Blawg" about how the Teamsters are promising not to use violence, guns, knives, etc., in their protests against employers. But, here is the thing: they wouldn't have to make these promises unless they either already HAVE ...
By: Publius Forum
Cross Border Trucking Program - The Storm after the calm
2008-03-15 04:29:00 The Mexican Cross Border program was in the news the entire week after John Hill, administrator of FMCSA indicated the program might need to be extended to provide more accurate statistics. This brought out the expected firestorm from the opponents and bloggers with no connection to the trucking industry. First out of the chute of ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Endorsement: Teamsters to Endorse Sen. Barack Obama
2008-02-20 14:32:00 Two Democratic sources tell CNN's Candy Crowley the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will endorse Barack Obama. The Obama campaign also announced that the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers had decided to back the Illinois senator's White House bid.
By: KC for Obama
Teamsters Boss Calls For Firing Of Secretary Of Transportation!
2008-02-09 15:13:00 Teamsters are launching a nationwide campaign to fire U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters for what they say is her “unlawful decision” to keep the American border open to Mexican trucks. As reported, the Bush administration has decided to ignore a provision passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush as part of the ...
By: Thought-Blender
TRINITY INDUSTRIES DE MEXICO drops from Cross Border program
2008-02-09 02:50:00 The first company to remove itself from the Cross Border Program was TRINITY INDUSTRIES DE MEXICO SA de C V the Mexican subsidiary of Trinity Industries with worldwide headquarters in Dallas Texas. Leonel Olivares, terminal manager at Trinity Industries in Eagle Pass, Texas, said its Mexican affiliate ?never had intentions of the drivers actually ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Cross Border Trucking - The inmates finally control the asylum!
2008-01-08 03:15:00 My little web-bots have been busy bringing to our attention the stupidity spewing from the mouths of the opponents of the Mexican Cross Border Program, and it continues to amaze me that folks actually believe this stuff. But then, America, long ago, forgot how to think for itself. So what’s been happening since before Christmas ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters/UFCW Smack Down
2008-01-04 15:55:00 Boy is this one embarrassing for two unions in one shot. Both the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers union got cremated in a vote by workers pondering representation. Turns out the employees of FreshDirect, a New York City grocery corporation, turned down BOTH of the unions by a vote of 80% against ...
Teamsters/UFCW Smack Down
2008-01-04 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Boy is this one embarrassing for two unions in one shot. Both the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers union got cremated in a vote by workers pondering representation. Turns out the employees of FreshDirect, a New York City grocery corporation, turned down BOTH of ...
By: Publius Forum
Your Friendly Neighborhood Teamsters
2008-01-01 16:40:00 In this age when $100 million blockbuster movies are routine and a few stars eat up half the budget, the closing credits are a quaint anachronism. How many people actually sit through that endless scroll of grips and best boys? Besides, it’s not as if getting the film made hinged on the guy driving the ...
Your Friendly Neighborhood Teamsters
2008-01-01 08:28:00 In this age when $100 million blockbuster movies are routine and a few stars eat up half the budget, the closing credits are a quaint anachronism. How many people actually sit through that endless scroll of grips and best boys? Besides, it's not as if getting the film made hinged on the guy driving the equipment truck to the set. Yet in Boston this year, it did. The parade of red-carpet Hollywood stars seen around town would have gone elsewhere if not for a group of anonymous blue-collar support people. Without their willingness to do their jobs quietly, there would have probably been no Morgan Freeman here, no Cameron Diaz, no Meg Ryan, no Christopher Walken, and none of those big bucks they spent on hotels and clothes and meals. Let us take a moment to salute the well-behaved Teamster.
By: The Cameron Diaz
Teamsters Official Charged with Extortion, Embezzlement
2007-12-31 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The New York Sun brings us the heartwarming Christmas tale of union corruption, extortion and embezzlement,once again. This time it is Anthony Rumore who is accused of trying to order union members to "contribute" money to his own defense fund to help him fund his legal efforts ...
By: Publius Forum
FMCSA Press Release on Cross Border Program
2007-12-27 19:35:00 In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico. The current cross-border trucking demonstration project ? established in September ? will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first, with participating Mexican carriers subject to all safety standards required by the 2008 omnibus bill, while giving U.S. trucking companies new opportunities and U.S. consumers significant savings
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa - Still talking out both sides of his ass!
2007-12-24 01:14:00 I wish someone would show me these “dangerous and unsafe” Mexican trucks that Hoffa continues to rant about. Also, could someone prove to me the illegality of this program? The only illegality that I have seen is the United States not living up to it’s obligations that it agreed to under the NAFTA agreement. And Jimmy Hoffa, ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Trucking Bozo concedes defeat - ?They win?
2007-12-21 05:11:00 I was listening to Dale Sommers aka “The Trucking Bozo” this afternoon and was surprised to hear him say he didn’t want to talk about the Mexican’s anymore. “I give up, they’ve won” to paraphrase his words. Bozo, we accept your surrender! And I think more and more of the critics are resigned to the fact. Leslie Miller, ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters? Hoffa leads protectionist border rally protesting trucking progr
2007-12-07 10:17:00 U.S. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella-DeLaney, who was at the rally, said union protectionism is the real force behind opposition and that Hoffa does not have the facts to back up his claims of unsafe trucks and drivers.
By: Mexico Trucker
Can Teamsters Clean up Own Act? Obviously Not
2007-12-03 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston There is an old joke of a gingerbread man who was running away from a hungry farmer and came to a river. A fox told him he could help the cookie man get across the river and away from the farmer. The cookie asked if the fox ...
By: Publius Forum
Can Teamsters Clean up Own Act? Obviously Not
2007-12-02 13:48:00 There is an old joke of a gingerbread man who was running away from a hungry farmer and came to a river. A fox told him he could help the cookie man get across the river and away from the farmer. The cookie asked if the fox would eat him after they crossed, but the ...
Ignoring the facts, Hoffa resorts to snide comments and character assassin
2007-10-22 05:08:00 Hmm, I just ran across Jimbo Hoffa’s snide little attack on his website a few moments ago, and was not surprised to see the sniping, character assassination , and belittling comments that have become the cornerstone of his rhetoric. You can read it here if you have the stomach for it. In addition to his the ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Mary Peters and others visit border inspection station
2007-10-21 20:02:00 After all the hoopla and accompanying scorn and rhetoric by those in Congress paid to oppose the Mexican Demonstration Project, members of a group led by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters visited a commercial vehicle-inspection station in El Paso to observe safety inspections required of all Mexican trucks entering the United States under ...
By: Mexico Trucker
No Jimmy Hoffa, you are the one that?s insulting!
2007-10-19 00:26:00 Jimmy Hoffa, in his premature response given before the press conference yesterday with Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and SCT Luis Tellez, made this statement: Transportation Secretary Mary Peters shows contempt for Americans’ intelligence with a truck inspection stunt planned in Washington
By: Mexico Trucker
Taking it to the hill!
2007-10-17 05:01:00 DOT to inspect Mexican, U.S. trucks in D.C. to prove safety standards met U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and her south-of-the-border counterpart, Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transportation Luis Tellez, along with U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez, have scheduled a news conference Wednesday afternoon to demonstrate that Mexican trucks that cross the border to ...
By: Mexico Trucker
More distinguished publications behind the Mexican Pilot Program
2007-10-11 00:07:00 As I have reported previously, it seems that more and more mainline publications, newspapers, magazines and periodicals are beginning to see through the campaigns of fear and misinformation being thrown around and taking a serious look at the Mexican Pilot Program and arriving at the same conclusions I have from the beginning. The latest, is The Trucker, a well respected industry publication based out of Little Rock Arkansas, my former home town. Bookmark this articleSubscribeBlogmarksDiggde-l.icio.usNewsVineStumbleUponTec-hnorati
By: Mexico Trucker
Editorial: Congress now doing Teamsters? bidding
2007-09-26 07:42:00 San Antonio Express-News Transportes Olympic, meet Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution. Olympic is a Mexican truck company in Nuevo León, the first to be certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to carry cargo into the interior of the United States in a one-year test of a provision of ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters win? by losing members!
2007-09-06 00:00:00 Ya, gotta love this one. Union Free America is awarding the Teamsters their "Most Decertified Union Award" because they are being knocked down by their own membership. Read on and enjoy... Teamsters Union Wins 2007 Most Decertified Union Award The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the winner of Union Free America?s 2nd ...
By: Publius Forum
Official Statement From Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa
2007-09-01 15:20:00 (Washington, D.C.) ? On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the emergency injunction filed by the Teamsters, Sierra Club and Public Citizen, saying the petition failed to meet legal hurdles. The case now must be argued before the court. Reacting to the decision, Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa stated: Share This
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters Sue to Stop Illegal, Unsafe Mexican Trucks From Crossing Into U.S
2007-08-30 03:18:00 It is somewhat sad to see a once great union whose time has come and gone reduced to this. Preying on peoples fears and prejudices to try and justify their continued existence. Strangely enough though, it is OOIDA taking credit for this. Their headlines on LandlineNow on XM-171 this afternoon was, OOIDA intends to stop Mexican ...
By: Mexico Trucker
HEADLINE: Teamsters will ask court to block letting Mexican trucks into US
2007-08-29 23:25:00 Editors Note: As I highlighted in bold, I wonder if they think they can go before the court, even one as liberal as the Ninth Circuit, with this obvious bald faced lie. Especially since this assertion has been disproved. I also would question the jurisdiction of the 9th in this matter. It appears these special ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters, Machinists At Columbia Ford Strike For Affordable Health Care
2007-07-18 13:34:00 Members of the Teamsters and Machinists Unions walked off the job in protest of Columbia Ford's refusal to help allay the rising costs of health care, passing on costs to their employees while not offering enough of a wage increase to offset the burden.The 31 union members consist of workers from parts and lube departments and mechanics at the car dealership. The unions, who have been in negotiations with the company since April 25, have been met with nothing but resistance by Columbia Ford to even the idea of considering a different approach to the health care plan."We are not asking for the world here," said Brian King, Teamsters Local 58 business agent. Local 58 represents the 10 striking workers who work in parts and lube departments. "Our proposals have been reasonable but the company's offer amounts to less take-home pay for the workers who will be forced to nearly triple their monthly payments for health care."Left with little recourse, the Teamsters Union voted for strike ...
By: health
Pushing the Agenda - The Teamsters
2007-06-23 23:56:00 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters continues to push their agenda as evidenced in the news conference in Washington on June 20, 2007 featuring the “unholy trinity”, James P. Hoffa, Joan Claybrook and Todd Spencer, normally, 3 people who can agree on nothing. Jimmy Jr. continues to harp back to an “investigative story” by Charles Bowden ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Teamsters, Disney at odds over labor deal
2007-05-18 20:28:00 Local 385 opposes Disney's contract offer -- and it dislikes the plan for busing voters.
Teamsters take on Cummins at Mid-America Trucking Show
2007-03-24 17:42:00 Filed under: Diesel, Etc. At the Mid-America Trucking Show this week, the Teamsters protested against Cummins, Inc., a company we follow here on AutoblogGreen because of their work with diesel engines in the U.S. The Teamsters called on Cummins to “act socially responsible” and treat its workers well. The Teamsters says Cummins violates ...
Teamsters Teaming With Lefty Bloggers?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In another sure sign that unions are desperately "looking for any allies it can get" (in the words of Bret Jacobson of the Center for Union Facts), the Teamsters are trying to enlist the aid of leftist bloggers to help them get the union word out. As laborpains.org ...
By: Publius Forum
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