James P. Hoffa
James P. Hoffa
James Phillip Hoffais an attorney and labor leader and the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa was first elected during December 1998 and took office on March 19, 1999. He was subsequently re-elected in 2001, 2006 and 2011 to five-year terms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CountryUnited States of America
government unions coming-back
The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
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Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
race organization numbers
We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
jobs war tired
We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
jobs mistake people
And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
country fighting opposites
We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
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We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
running strong moving
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.
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What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
impact generations taxes
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
want shakes workers
All workers want is a fair shake.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.