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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
- Corporate America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
- Nov 07, 2020