Trash Piles up in Union-Boss Stronghold Cities
The Teamsters garbage strike in and around Boston has been even uglier and more dangerous than DC 33’s, which ended July 9.
Teamsters President Hoffa Blasts "Tea Baggers"
Perhaps unaware that many rank and file Teamsters have been part of the Tea Party movement, Teamster Boss Jim Hoffa erroneously charged, “The tea-baggers show up and are against Social Security and Medicare; they even want to shut down the VA hospitals.”
Again, Hoffa displays the problem with top down control of labor unions created by the forced-union monopoly bargaining system that evolved from the NLRA and NLRB decisions. Without the power to force workers to pay dues combined with federally-mandated monopoly bargaining, Hoffa would need to listen to his members rather than tell them what they should think.
