James P. Hoffa Quotes

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• 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…
• We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization…
• It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
• That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
• 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.
• 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…
• If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.
• 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…
• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
• Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
• 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…
• Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
• 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…
• All workers want is a fair shake.
• Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.

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