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GENERAL PRESIDENT JAMES P. HOFFA

FAA Reauthorization Will Put People To Work

President Obama recently visited Las Vegas, a city with a 13% unemployment rate. Not surprisingly, it was an airline employee who asked how he would bring jobs and tourism back to the community.

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Teamsters Aid Locked Out Employees At U.S. Borax in Boron, Calif.

(KGET.COM)- Teamsters showed up in Boron, Calif. in a show of solidarity with the blue collar workers locked out of their jobs at the U.S. Borax plant. Labor disputes regarding seniority and benefits have caused the stalemate. The company denies trying to scale back benefits.

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Hoffa: Tea Party Protesters Pick Wrong Target

When I listen to the Tea Party tax protesters, I hear that they're mad as hell. They're angry about deficit spending, and they believe that government is undermining free enterprise for the benefit of international elites. Our worsening economy is driving their anger, and I place much of the blame for our economic problems on conglomerates, especially banks, that are too big and doing too little to provide credit and capital to businesses to create good jobs in America. Tea Party protesters are average Americans who are paying the price for the unrestrained power of corporations.

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Antiquated Air Traffic Control
March 11 -

Today, the Senate turned to the Federal Aviation Administration authorization, H.R.1586. The last four-year authorization expired September 30, 2007. What caused this 2½ year delay? Congress couldn’t agree on how to apportion the excise and ticket taxes to pay for a desperately needed modernization of the air traffic control system.

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Obstructionist Republican Blocks FAA Bill As Political Favor To FedEx
March 10 -

Last year, the House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration and devoting $70 billion to airport infrastructure through 2012. The bill also changed an inequity in labor law which has allowed FedEx to operate under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), while other shipping companies like UPS are governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

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Flight 3407 Families Put Pressure On Senator
March 10 -

About 20 members of the Families of Continental Flight 3407 descended on the Capitol today, intent on pressuring a Tennessee senator to abandon his plans to stop a bill filled with aviation safety measures from coming up for a vote.

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Corker Catches Heat For Hold On FAA Reauthorization Bill
March 10 -

Irate families of victims of a plane crash last year near Buffalo, N.Y., are blaming Sen. Bob Corker's intervention on behalf of FedEx for a potential delay in passing higher safety standards in an FAA reauthorization bill.

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In Memoriam
March 9 -

Phil Feaster, retired President of Washington, D.C.’s Local 639 and former board member of the Teamsters National Black Caucus, died on Sunday, March 7. He was 70.

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