James P. Hoffa Quotes

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James P. Hoffa

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 19, 1941

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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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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If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

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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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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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Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

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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.

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