"Jim Kabell, the President of the MOKAN Conference of Teamsters (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) and a Trustee of the IBT, is another Hoffa slate member that supports the CSPF cuts.
In September 2015, there was a rally at our Union Hall to support Missouri's Governor's veto of a Right to Work Law. Hoffa was also at this rally to make a speech supporting our Governor and those that were supporting his veto.
When the car bringing Hoffa from the airport, to the meeting, arrived at the Union Hall, they drove right past a group of us retirees, that were carrying signs protesting the proposed cuts to our pensions. We waved and called for Hoffa to stop and talk to us. Hoffa put his head down, ignoring us, as the car he was in drove past. He also left the rally to go back to the airport without speaking to retirees.
After the rally was over and people were leaving, I ran into Jim Kabell and we had a conversation about the CSPF plan to cut pensions. I told Jim that I had heard from John Murphy, that he supported the CSPF cuts and he said, "yes, that he did support the cuts", because, "that's the only way to save the Fund." When I told him that we (our small, just forming, retiree group) were going to fight the cuts and support Bernie Sander's KOPPA Bill, Jim just laughed and said that would never happen. I told him to go ahead and laugh that he was going to be surprised. We invited Kabell to speak at our January MKCCPP meeting and he was still supporting Nyhan'$ cuts. I'm sure Kabell was telling his members in Springfield, Mo to do the same."..... WES EPPERSON!