Posted on 10/20/2011 11:50:43 AM PDT by traumer
SAN DIEGO — The first Mexican carrier is set to roll into the U.S. interior Friday, but the Teamsters union and two California congressmen haven't given up on stopping the cross-border trucking program that had been stalled for years by safety concerns and political wrangling.
U.S. Reps. Duncan Hunter and Bob Filner joined Teamsters President James Hoffa at the border Wednesday to take a bipartisan stand against the pilot project that will allow approved Mexican trucks to come deep into the United States. The first one will enter Texas.
Hunter is a San Diego-area Republican, while Filner is a Democrat whose district includes California's border with Mexico. They were surrounded at a news conference by more than 75 union members from at least five states.
Allowing Mexican trucking companies to deliver goods rather than transfer them to U.S. haulers at the border will put American jobs and highway safety at risk, they said.
"We're literally taking good jobs here in America and passing them over the line to Mexico," Hunter told the crowd, many holding signs reading "NAFTA kills" and "Stop the war on workers."
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With the Teamsters riled up about this, I wouldn’t be surprised to see tires shot out on the trucks coming from Mexico (at the very least....).
This is one instance when I back the Teamsters all the way.
We can (maybe, perhaps) let Mexican trucks in when our employment of truck drivers is 100%.
I eagerly await the MSM supression of any news concerning safety/accidents/drug running/etc/etc/etc with those trucks.
This is one instance when I back the Teamsters all the way.
We can (maybe, perhaps) let Mexican trucks in when our employment of truck drivers is 100%.
I eagerly await the MSM supression of any news concerning safety/accidents/drug running/etc/etc/etc with those trucks.
Truckers! Blockade these invaders! This cant happen.
word to Duncan Hunter: don’t do any sofa photo-opps with Hoffa.
Yet, the unions will vote for the Democrat.
We were all warned repeatedly about anti-American globalist policies like NAFTA....
Of course, we no longer live in a free country, but one ran by an oligarchy of insiders.
Profits for a few, regardless of consequences.
“With the Teamsters riled up about this, I wouldn’t be surprised to see tires shot out on the trucks coming from Mexico (at the very least....).”
If the Mexican truck drivers join the Teamster Union and pay union dues the opposition from the Teamster Union will stop.
We were all warned repeatedly about anti-American globalist policies like NAFTA....
Of course, we no longer live in a free country, but one ran by an oligarchy of insiders.
Profits for a few, regardless of consequences.
You are exactly right!
Hoffa upset about this...right—what theater! And I’m sure those criminal background checks from Mexico is real reliable too.
Better start learning the back roads again—if you want to make it there alive.
The death of yet another American industry. The entire American economy has been systematically dismantled over the last forty years.
Hey Hoffa, get your guys out of wallstreet, and down to the border!
The first Mexican carrier AKA The Cocaine Express.
Now, now...
Don’t you folks realize that the economies of the Dem-Run Inner-Cities, and so many of their voters, depend on a reliable illegal drug conduit from Mexico??
I do too (back the Teamsters)! This is not a right or left issue....
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