Posted on 06/19/2002 11:17:37 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Spend an hour with Teamsters President James P. Hoffa and you get a crash course in his brand of bipartisan union politics and, with it, a peek into how the White House is driving a wedge into organized labor.
The first thing Mr. Hoffa wanted me to know when I walked into his office on Capitol Hill (that his father once occupied) was that his union is no longer the wholly owned monopoly of the Democratic Party. His message to Democrats: "Don't take us for granted."
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