The Teamsters have supported GOP candidates in the past. Maybe they’ll do again next year.
(Not that I would want to encourage them too much-—but any support we can get to dump Obummer is appreciated.)
I hope you are correct, Mr. Bender, but I must say do not share your optimism.
The teamsters are going to vote for Republicans instead? Weren’t both Bush’s in favor of this? Clinton too, I think.
Maybe the Teamsters think they can unionize the mexican truckers?
These idiots understand nothing about ‘market share’.
According to the BLS, only about 16% of OTR drivers are unionized. I personally think the number is even lower. Of the union drivers I know, virtually every one id a final destination delivery driver. (Short haul route drivers)
Mr. Williams didn't look down on the membership. He came from their ranks. He knew the membership was smart enough to know that their standard of living depended on a thriving private sector and not on an ever expanding and ever more intrusive government.
Obama, Biden and James Hoffa may think they can fool the poor dumb truck drivers into thinking it is in their interest to vote for an administration that is destroying American jobs, but I tend to doubt it.
That's hopeful...
Except him.
Their leadship has alway been stupid.
They have them by the short hairs and the gang running the Consent Decree are as politically corrupt as any old guard teamster
The teamster money always flows by hand of the officers but though they try to influence the membership, they really don't control their votes
less than 20% of the one million or so even participate in their union elections - the retirees just bitch about their pension shortfalls
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is just a dues shakedown operation and PAC (D.R.I.V.E.)
I know Teamsters that are fed up with Obama because they weren’t all that excited about him in the first place, but they’re rank-and-file, also known to Obama as “bitter clingers hanging onto their guns and religion.”
Author states it was a “...pleasure and honor to know Roy Williams,” Teamster Union Pres. Unfortunately, Williams would have died in Federal Prison had it not been for a death bed parole by DOJ. Williams by his own admission had allowed crime boss Nick Civella (of KC) to gain “influence” in Teamsters Union. Surprise, surprise...
What incentive is there for ANY trucking company to remain in the US if the Mexican trucking companies can come in and have TAX FUNDED EQUIPMENT that the US trucking companies are REQUIRED to pay for themselves? Not to mention the labor/wages/work comp/etc... which will never compete for shipping.
Hell, if I had a trucking company, I think I’D move to Mexico.
What incentive is there for ANY trucking company to remain in the US if the Mexican trucking companies can come in and have TAX FUNDED EQUIPMENT that the US trucking companies are REQUIRED to pay for themselves? Not to mention the labor/wages/work comp/etc... which will never compete for shipping.
Hell, if I had a trucking company, I think I’D move to Mexico.
As far as the Mexican trucker situation goes, I'm not sure where that is today. The first I was aware of it was when Clinton signed NAFTA. The truckers were incensed and I don't know if allowances were made. I do know that a terrible wreck in Corrigan Texas was caused by a Mexican truck with failed brakes went through a light at 70mph and "T boned" a woman and her child and ended up in an Exxon station across the street and burned it to the ground. There was no hiding it because electricity was knocked out over a wide area and important phone lines also burned. There was a huge stink over that and I wasn't aware that trucks were allowed on the US side at the time. The trucks were supposed to dump their loads at the border and a US truck and driver was supposed to take over from there. If its going south, we would dump the load and the Mexican driver and truck would take it from the border.
This has been the sticking point since day one. Their trucks don't have safety requirements and ours are picked clean by the DPS and it costs us more $$ to deliver a load. The Mexicans could put American truckers out of business just on operation costs alone. They can pay them a dollar an hour and put them behind the wheel of a rolling bomb against a US driver and truck.
This part of "free trade" can never be worked out. We can never guarantee the driver is fit to drive even if we inspect their trucks at the border each trip to the US. I know there are several deaths every year from Mexican drivers, but I don't know if they are driving here legally.
If you just look at the regulations US drivers go through, there is no way a Mexican driver and truck could stand up to it.
The late Frank Sheeran who takes credit for killing Jimmy Hoffa (and Joey Gallo and a lot of other people) also takes credit getting Joe Biden elected senator.