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Obama a friend of the teamsters? Be serious. He said what he had to say to get elected and what everybody wanted to hear but he is not in Chicago now. He is in the White House.
"that prompted Mexico to slap duties last year on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. goods,"
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Man, those farmers are pissed and
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is desperate for votes..he will personally inspect those trucks and let them roll​
 
[quote author=truckchick1 link=topic=79922.msg827689#msg827689 date=1273190018]
You do remember that our union dues help pay to get elected right?
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If you didn't contribute to DRIVE then your dues didn't support Obama. Personally I gave to drive and Obama is ok by me so far.
 
[quote author=truckinusa link=topic=79922.msg827711#msg827711 date=1273193253]
[quote author=truckchick1 link=topic=79922.msg827689#msg827689 date=1273190018]
You do remember that our union dues help pay to get elected right?
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If you didn't contribute to DRIVE then your dues didn't support Obama. Personally I gave to drive and Obama is ok by me so far.
[/quote]Personnally I think Local 710 should have some of the BA's over at the White House keeping tabs on Corporate America. Every time a company demands their employees to take a pay cut, hit them with a higher tax code.
 
[If you didn't contribute to DRIVE then your dues didn't support Obama. Personally I gave to drive and Obama is ok by me so far.
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No one asked me but I would rather take my money and flush it down the toilet before I gave it to Drive.
 
Teamsters BA's can't keep accurate tabs on themselves so I definately wouldn't trust them running this country!! haha
 
In all my years of contributing to drive,I never saw any benefit for teamster members out of it. It got Hoffa and his cronies invited to fancy dinners and meetings that may have benefited them,but nothing for us.The teamster union should stay out of politics and use that money to help union members that are laid off and those that have fallen on hard times. If nothing else,they should put that money into the mismanaged pension funds.Every little bit helps.
 
Drive is and always has been a slush fund , established so union officials can go on junkets , golf outings and fat-cat trips to places like Las Vegas. A small portion of it has been used to support donations to politicians like Nancy Pelosi , Ted Kennedy and other noxious human trash politicians. If you have been giving money to them , you have been had. To be polite.
 
[quote author=Gondofini link=topic=79922.msg827861#msg827861 date=1273258358]
Giving money to a political party is not a brilliant move!
[/quote]Sure it is, it is helping create those new "GREEN" jobs. :biglaugh:
 
You guys make it sound like there are still lobbyists in Washington. There can't be any of them left. Obama said that he would throw all lobbyist out of Washington. So I think they have all been kicked out. :biglaugh:
 
[quote author=fr8holler link=topic=79922.msg827835#msg827835 date=1273252062]
Ted Kennedy and other noxious human trash politicians. If you have been giving money to them , you have been had. To be polite.
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Why in the world would the Teamsters have endorsed him to begin with? He was a driving force to behind deregulation. His brothers had a vendetta against the Teamsters that he followed up on. So then Jr Hoffa decides to endorse him for office and write a nice obit when the Murdering Rapist Drunk kicked the bucket.
I was disgusted.
 
[quote author=treman530 link=topic=79922.msg827730#msg827730 date=1273196022]
[If you didn't contribute to DRIVE then your dues didn't support Obama. Personally I gave to drive and Obama is ok by me so far.
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No one asked me but I would rather take my money and flush it down the toilet before I gave it to Drive.
[/q uote] I use to contribute to Drive then after Obomanation was elected I got pissed and stopped giving :rant:
 
The posts on this thread show how far apart the teamster leadership ,(Hoffa and his cronies) are from the rank and file teamsters. There are two different classes of people in this country,I guess you can call them the haves and the have nots or the wealthy and the working poor. The wealthy and the politicians have wanted this for a long time and they are getting closer to it every day. Hoffa has decided to side with his wealthy friends like Obama and the politicians who seek to keep the working man down. This association has done nothing for the rank and file teamsters. Anyone who believes Hoffa is on their side is in for a rude awakening. The IBT leadership needs the money from your dues and drive contributions to maintain their status with the politicians and the wealthy class. The IBT leadership are just like the politicians today.They tell us what they need to, to get our votes and then they do whatever they want to,usually to benefit themselves. You have seen in last few weeks that many of our pension plans are in the critical status,but if you could see the pension plans for the teamster leadership,you might see their plans are very healthy and secure. Why? Because they take very good care of themselves with dues money and drive contributions. Teamsters,It`s time to wake up and smell the coffee. We need to hold our teamster officials accountable as well as our poiticians while we still have a vote. Look not at what they say,look at what they do.
 
I smell the coffee, but the problem is the coffee isn't for a Teamster. It is a Teamster giving a coffee to the dispatcher to get a better run. Drivers must stop that ::shit:: first in order to embrace being a Teamster, again.
 
there is a sizable sinkable faction of the almighty teamster's union who believe that teamster power is a god given right and haven't been in the game that long to understand that all of what the teamsters gained in contracts over the past 30 years or are so where accomplished just for the sake of good economic times and a strong teamster presence in the industry. There were only 2 short strikes. The economy fell into catastrophic mode at a time the boys in Overland Park, KS were uniting the best union trucking companies in the land. Fahgettaboudit!! Too bad they owe $1,000,000,000. Non-union competition got bigger and better and combined with tough times you are
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Thats why I hope the US Government decides to open the borders and lets NAFTA take place. Then the non-unions drivers can get the real un-constitutional taste of what Deregulation is all about. Looks like there will be a lot of drivers volunteering to sign those union-cards after all. See, are pensions will be saved.
 
"According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in the 15 years since NAFTA came into force annual U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico has tripled to nearly $1 trillion. More than 100,000 small and medium-sized U.S. firms now employ Americans to produce goods and services for export to our NAFTA neighbors."
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not to mention
Latin America and the

WTO countries---
Albania 8 September 2000
Angola 23 November 1996
Antigua and Barbuda 1 January 1995
Argentina 1 January 1995
Armenia 5 February 2003
Australia 1 January 1995
Austria 1 January 1995
Bahrain, Kingdom of 1 January 1995
Bangladesh 1 January 1995
Barbados 1 January 1995
Belgium 1 January 1995
Belize 1 January 1995
Benin 22 February 1996
Bolivia 12 September 1995
Botswana 31 May 1995
Brazil 1 January 1995
Brunei Darussalam 1 January 1995
Bulgaria 1 December 1996
Burkina Faso 3 June 1995
Burundi 23 July 1995
Cambodia 13 October 2004
Cameroon 13 December 1995
Canada 1 January 1995
Cape Verde 23 July 2008
Central African Republic 31 May 1995
Chad 19 October 1996
Chile 1 January 1995
China 11 December 2001
Colombia 30 April 1995
Congo 27 March 1997
Costa Rica 1 January 1995
Côte d'Ivoire 1 January 1995
Croatia 30 November 2000
Cuba 20 April 1995
Cyprus 30 July 1995
Czech Republic 1 January 1995
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 January 1997
Denmark 1 January 1995
Djibouti 31 May 1995
Dominica 1 January 1995
Dominican Republic 9 March 1995
Ecuador 21 January 1996
Egypt 30 June 1995
El Salvador 7 May 1995
Estonia 13 November 1999
European Union (formerly European Communities) 1 January 1995
Fiji 14 January 1996
Finland 1 January 1995
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) 4 April 2003
France 1 January 1995
Gabon 1 January 1995
The Gambia 23 October 1996
Georgia 14 June 2000
Germany 1 January 1995
Ghana 1 January 1995
Greece 1 January 1995
Grenada 22 February 1996
Guatemala 21 July 1995
Guinea 25 October 1995
Guinea Bissau 31 May 1995
Guyana 1 January 1995
Haiti 30 January 1996
Honduras 1 January 1995
Hong Kong, China 1 January 1995
Hungary 1 January 1995
Iceland 1 January 1995
India 1 January 1995
Indonesia 1 January 1995
Ireland 1 January 1995
Israel 21 April 1995
Italy 1 January 1995
Jamaica 9 March 1995
Japan 1 January 1995
Jordan 11 April 2000
Kenya 1 January 1995
Korea, Republic of 1 January 1995
Kuwait 1 January 1995
Kyrgyz Republic 20 December 1998
Latvia 10 February 1999
Lesotho 31 May 1995
Liechtenstein 1 September 1995
Lithuania 31 May 2001
Luxembourg 1 January 1995
Macao, China 1 January 1995
Madagascar 17 November 1995
Malawi 31 May 1995
Malaysia 1 January 1995
Maldives 31 May 1995
Mali 31 May 1995
Malta 1 January 1995
Mauritania 31 May 1995
Mauritius 1 January 1995
Mexico 1 January 1995
Moldova 26 July 2001
Mongolia 29 January 1997
Morocco 1 January 1995
Mozambique 26 August 1995
Myanmar 1 January 1995
Namibia 1 January 1995
Nepal 23 April 2004
Netherlands — For the Kingdom in Europe and for the Netherlands Antilles 1 January 1995
New Zealand 1 January 1995
Nicaragua 3 September 1995
Niger 13 December 1996
Nigeria 1 January 1995
Norway 1 January 1995
Oman 9 November 2000
Pakistan 1 January 1995
Panama 6 September 1997
Papua New Guinea 9 June 1996
Paraguay 1 January 1995
Peru 1 January 1995
Philippines 1 January 1995
Poland 1 July 1995
Portugal 1 January 1995
Qatar 13 January 1996
Romania 1 January 1995
Rwanda 22 May 1996
Saint Kitts and Nevis 21 February 1996
Saint Lucia 1 January 1995
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines 1 January 1995
Saudi Arabia 11 December 2005
Senegal 1 January 1995
Sierra Leone 23 July 1995
Singapore 1 January 1995
Slovak Republic 1 January 1995
Slovenia 30 July 1995
Solomon Islands 26 July 1996
South Africa 1 January 1995
Spain 1 January 1995
Sri Lanka 1 January 1995
Suriname 1 January 1995
Swaziland 1 January 1995
Sweden 1 January 1995
Switzerland 1 July 1995
Chinese Taipei 1 January 2002
Tanzania 1 January 1995
Thailand 1 January 1995
Togo 31 May 1995
Tonga 27 July 2007
Trinidad and Tobago 1 March 1995
Tunisia 29 March 1995
Turkey 26 March 1995
Uganda 1 January 1995
Ukraine 16 May 2008
United Arab Emirates 10 April 1996
United Kingdom 1 January 1995
United States of America 1 January 1995
Uruguay 1 January 1995
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1 January 1995
Viet Nam 11 January 2007
Zambia 1 January 1995
Zimbabwe 5 March 1995
 
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