Non-union construction workers used to cut costs on new Teamsters building

I spent many years in a steel mill, and was in the AFL-CIO.

What was really amazing is that when every election was coming-up you'd get a mailing from them endorsing candidates

In ALL the years I was there, there
WASN'T ONE
Republican
EVER
endorsed!

We used to say: "You mean there isn't ONE Republican that's a better choice than ALL these Democrats??"

That's the way they operate - still stuck in the 1940's, and not using one ounce of brainpower when considering who to endorse, what's more they really do expect the membership to go along with them and blindly vote "D" all the way down the line.

In a nice bit of irony, Hoffa seems to be the closest of all the unions to possibly crossing party lines and endorsing a republican. Some of the teamster leadership is bitter about the senate Alaskan Tundra (that is not a god damn wildlife refuge, its a damn ice desert) hold up. They pro immigration enviormental wing of the dem party has been stopping them on some of the things they want and asked for, and it seems some dems couldn't care less if the teamsters protested (they must think the teamster vote is like the black vote, one of those things you can take for granted). Hoffa actually endorsed Gore almost at the last minuit making his endorsement essentially worthless since he did no campainging for him. I have a close friend who is in the teamsters now, awhile back they went to some kind of AFL-CIO union thing or somthing, where Hitlery and some other liberals spoke, him and his "brothers" didn't like the leftists enviormental socialists edge the whole thing gave off. They also noticed, a sort of intellectual snobby condesending attitutde from the dems, ironically, all the other unions didn't seem to care, but alot of the teamsters did. I have a feeling that the teamsters might endorse Bush in 2004, and may be slowly splitting into both parties. Hoffa has made a big deal about making sure that things go for the teamsters best interests, not the interests of the democratic or republican party, unlike most liberal groups who couldn't care less, as long as they support a rat.

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