Quotes by James P. Hoffa - Page 1

All workers want is a fair shake.
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Shakes
Want
Workers
Fair
Shake
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This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
America
New Era
Workers
Beginning
Era
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Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Day Of Rest
Hardworking
Labor
Labor Day
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That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Get Money
Manpower
Support
Unions
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
American Workers
Apologizing
Standing
Workers
Apologize
Fellow
Standing Up
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Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
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Ears
Public Sector
Communities
Public
Employees
Eyes
Ground
Sector
Serve
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Hiring
Michigan
Stories
Industries
Success Story
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Congress
Medicaid
Security
Social
Social Security
Cut
Elected
He Or She
Promised
She
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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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Organize
Together
Unions
Bloom
Union
Start
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Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Corporate
Generations
Impact
Taxes
Unethical
Tax
Across
Dodging
Impacts
Unsustainable
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Government
Coming Back
Supervision
Unions
Coming
Gotten
Mob
Union
Rid
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Agreement
Deals
Free Trade
Manufacturing
Unfair
Workers
Good-Paying
Manufacturing Jobs
Million
North American
Putting
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Bigger
Impact
Manpower
Numbers
Organization
Percent
Race
Vote
Votes
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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 about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Jobs
War
America
Economy
Rebuilding
Seeing
Tired
Did
Fight
Good-Paying
Overseas
Shipped
Start
Wing
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We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Employers
Standards
Too Much
Aspects
Eroded
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
American Economy
Country
Economy
Global Economy
Robust
Seems
Trends
Unions
Devour
Global
Standard
Somehow
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Employers
Pay
Shortcuts
Fair
Our People
Wage
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Running
Campaigns
Employers
Fund
Large Scale
Moving
Resources
Strong
Bank
Organizing
Global
Million
Strike
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Jobs
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Mistake
People
Voted
Collective
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Class
Corporate
Discrimination
Economy
Gains
Pain
Rights
States
Theft
United
United States
Functional
Worker
Goes
Regular
Rug
Swept
Wage
While
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
War
Battle
Eye
Party
Tea Party
Workers
Everywhere
Beat
Only One Way
The One Thing
Working People
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Approach
Chosen
Country
Fighting
Members
Opposites
Planning
Undermining
Workers
Opposite
Fight
Politicians
Forces
Union
Throw
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
America
Congress
Done
Peril
Political
Vote
District
Working
Oppose
Turned
Working Families
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
America
Corporate
Corporate America
Economy
Executives
Gains
Income
Percent
Wealthy
Anyone
Followed
Last
One Percent
Recent
Recent Years
Tell
While
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Health
Able
Benefits
Care
Deserve
Economy
Health Care
Helping
Honest
Paid
Workers
Fair
Justly
Provide
Receive
Table
Wage
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Jobs
Benefits
Creating
Employment
Housing
Improving
Lifestyle
Millions
Outlook
Workers
Earn
Fair
Skilled
Sustain
Table
Wage
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
New York
Sister
War
Brother
California
Civil War
Divided
Evidence
Pennsylvania
Pulling
Together
Like
Against
Thing
Get
Been
Seen
Same
Cause
Civil
First
First Thing
Page
Union
Same Page
The First Thing
York
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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.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
Bankruptcy
Brotherhood
Cutting
Equity
Fees
International
Left
Plunder
President
Reckless
Rich
Again
Drive
Seen
Companies
Cut
Declare
Private
Taking
Themselves
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