Teamsters President Rejects 'Drilling Our Way Out' of Energy Crisis, Declares Withdrawal from ANWR Coalition!

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“We are not going to drill our way out of the energy problems we are facing—not here and not in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” [Teamsters General President] Hoffa told labor and environmental activists at an Oakland, Calif., summit on good jobs and clean air. “We must find a long-term approach that breaks our dependence on foreign oil by investing in the development of alternate energy sources like solar, wind and geothermal power.”

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Hoffa then announced the union’s withdrawal from the ANWR coalition, citing the need to build a green economy that fosters the development of alternative energy sources and creates good union jobs—instead of lining the pockets of big oil tycoons.

http://www.teamster.org/08news/nr_080723_1.asp

[YuAndDan 153]

Typical Union Hack. Always concerned with the worker's wages, (Which is OK), and never concerned that the rising cost of fuel will probably put the trucking companies that the worker's (Truckers) out of business, and were will this leave the people that the Union represents? "OUT OF WORK"

[peejay 327]

I wonder what numbnuts thinks about his buddies in congress that want to drill into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as the solution.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Typical Union Hack. Always pretending to be concerned with the worker's wages, (Which would be OK if their concern was real), and never concerned that the rising cost of fuel will probably put the trucking companies that the worker's (Truckers) out of business, and were will this leave the people that the Union represents? "OUT OF WORK"

Of course, Teamsters has always been a chopf##k union since the days of Jimmy Hoffa.

[almaty 19]

hoffa, stfu you mafia #######

[Steve Y Jessica 1]

I have always HATED unions. The only people that need unions are the lazy and the stupid!!!! I have many examples of the union protecting people who are lazy and stupid. I have even had shop stewards tell me that they could not believe that they had to protect certain people. If you work hard and do a good job, your pay will follow. It is simple economics, supply and demand.

Let the lazy and stupid starve and die!!!!!

Right now, while I am at work, I can't find the exact quote, but even the Bible says that those who do not work hard do not deserve to eat.!!!

[almaty 19]

wow, tell us how you really feel...