At auto shows across the country the weekend of January 29-31 – in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Texas and Washington, D.C. – union carhaul drivers and consumer advocates spoke out about auto makers that are threatening good jobs and auto safety.
On Wednesday, January 27 Carhaul Teamsters called in to get an update on the union’s effort to save carhaul jobs. Listen here to the audio from that call.
Today, dozens of Teamsters who deliver new cars for a living, along with consumer activists from CarBuyersBeware.com, handbilled outside the Washington, D.C. Auto Show and staged a song and dance action inside the show venue to demand Fiat/Chrysler not destroy the jobs that support them and their families.
ABC News in Detroit reported on the Teamsters and UAW’s protest against Toyota at the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C. Union members and big rigs gathered for the protest against Toyota’s decision to cut unionized carhaul jobs. Signs and banners displaying the message “Toyota Killing America’s Jobs” were displayed.
The United Auto Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters protested Toyota Motor Corp. for a second straight day in Washington, calling the embattled automaker "a danger to America."
The UAW and the Teamsters union protested outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington today, calling on Toyota to reverse decisions to close a California plant and hire nonunion carhaulers.
The UAW and Teamsters plan to protest Toyota outside the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, calling the automaker “a danger to America” in a statement today.
Teamsters general president James P. Hoffa and United Auto Workers (UAW) vice president Bob King, representing UAW president Ron Gettelfinger and UAW vice president Jimmy Settles, will lead a delegation of labor representatives, environmental advocates and consumer protection advocates in a protest outside the Embassy of Japan in Washington on January 28 at 11:15 a.m.
Teamsters gathered outside the Italian Consulate in Detroit last week, and distributed leaflets to passers-by that called Fiat/Chrysler a global “Bailout Bandit.” Overhead an airplane trailed a banner that read, “Fiat/Chrysler: Shame! Vergogna!” Vergogna means “shame on you” in Italian. The workers were protesting Fiat/Chrysler’s plan to move union carhaul work to cut-rate, non-union companies. Watch Fox 2’s coverage of the event here.
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