[One]

I dont see this story anywhere on this forum, strsngely enough...So here it is:

Senate Panel Heeds Teamster Demand To Keep Border Closed To Mexican Trucks

    Senate Committee Vote Is Important Step in Fight to Secure America's
                                  Highways

    WASHINGTON, March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters scored a
significant victory today in the fight to stop President Bush's reckless
plan to open the United States' border to unsafe Mexican trucks, with a key
Senate committee voting to block the pilot project.
    "The 1.4 million members of the Teamsters Union were heard loud and
clear on Capitol Hill today," said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa.
"This is an important first step in our fight to keep America's highways
safe and secure."
    The Senate Appropriations Committee blocked funding for the dangerous
pilot program by passing an amendment requiring the Transportation
Department to publish details of the plan and to provide time for public
comment. The committee also voted to require that the pilot project meet
congressionally mandated safety and security standards.
    The Bush administration is trying to circumvent those safety
requirements by repackaging the plan as a pilot project, allowing 100
Mexican trucking firms open access to U.S. highways, putting American
drivers at risk.
    The amendment was sponsored by Democratic Sens. Byron Dorgan of North
Dakota, Dianne Feinstein of California and Patty Murray of Washington.
    "The Teamsters Union has successfully led the battle to keep our border
closed for the past 12 years, and we will not let up in our fight as this
measure moves through Congress," Hoffa said. "I want to thank our allies on
Capitol Hill for standing strong for highway safety."
    Hearings in both the Senate and House have revealed that too many
questions remain about how the Bush administration's dangerous experiment
will be carried out, the Transportation Department's ability to inspect
trucks and the Mexican government's ability to meet U.S. standards for
regulating hours of service, driver training and licensing.
    Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the
nation's largest transportation union, representing 1.4 million hardworking
women and men throughout the United States and Canada.

SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Related links:
# http://www.teamster.org/

[Fozzy]

Blah blah blah blah blah! Was that supposed to be a news story or something for the liberal democrats and conspiracy wonks to play romantic music and touch themselves to? The Bush hate rhetoric was thick as fleas...

More of the same from the same sources

[One]

Originally Posted by Fozzy

Blah blah blah blah blah! Was that supposed to be a news story or something for the liberal democrats and conspiracy wonks to play romantic music and touch themselves to? The Bush hate rhetoric was thick as fleas...

More of the same from the same sources

WTF are you on about????????????The teamsters did this for all of us! You must like your job taken by Mehicanos?????

[Dejanh]

Originally Posted by One

WTF are you on about????????????The teamsters did this for all of us! You must like your job taken by Mehicanos?????

Dont mind him, dont even try, this imbecile knows everything about everybody at anytime everywhere in the whole wide world, he went to Harvard/Oxford and Yale at the same time and majored in every subject known to man making him what he is today, a big,bad truck driver !

To be this low on IQ you have to go to a special academy for training !

[PackRatTDI]

Originally Posted by One

WTF are you on about????????????The teamsters did this for all of us! You must like your job taken by Mehicanos?????

BWAHAHAHA! The only reason the Teamsters are against this is that they aren't going to make any money off of it. They gave up thinking about the "working man" a long time ago.

[Fozzy]

Originally Posted by One

WTF are you on about????????????The teamsters did this for all of us! You must like your job taken by Mehicanos?????

The Teamsters did this for "us"....

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA

[emerlin]

Originally Posted by One

I dont see this story anywhere on this forum, strsngely enough...So here it is:

[code]Senate Panel Heeds Teamster Demand To Keep Border Closed To Mexican Trucks


SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Related links:
# http://www.teamster.org/

Now, there's some unbiased, fair, reporting!

Kinda like a car dealer using the NADA book for his prices...

[Fozzy]

Teamsters going along with the Democrats is about as newsworthy as Cindy Sheeman going along with Micheal Moore.

and of course for the same reasons.... political pandering

[Wolfhound]

I know..

It's amazing isn't it..

How anybody trying to save OUR jobs is an attack on the president.

After all, he has proven to be so competent in everything else he has touched, why should we be nervous when he starts eyeballing our jobs?

You gotta be kidding me..

Even more amazing is reading the level of support from American Drivers to the idea,many of them see no problem with flooding the market with drivers who will move freight for a fraction of the cost.

Instead they blame the teamsters and the democrats..

Were these people kicked in the head at a young age?

[Twilight Flyer]

How about some meaningful dialogue and ideas to keep the thread going. I am running out of Mexican-thread-locking keys.

:roll: