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james hoffa's uh... brilliant piece in the huffington post uh... plane doomsday
politics
let's wrap the hour with james off a himself the president international
brotherhood of teamsters teamster dot org first their website are james hoffa
welcome back to the program
art drama great to be a so what's the latest from michigan what's going on
there
well i'm on my way back from last year we had
i believe that the president
worker cerebral all different unions to demonstrate our displacement what's
going on other governor ed you know has taken a lame duck
obsession of the state legislature
atlantic through in five days
upto up huge importers right-to-work bill
he set aside up tomorrow
uh... this is really kind of uh... speaker cakap labor
uh... he didn't permit any cast a body
uh... and bill archer the everyday shipboard credit body else picked it up
though
obliterate baker's best bigger pretzel
gilda carle road trip
the court brothers because it's very similar to what was done at wisconsin
and ohio
uh... but this is big business puts muscles
it'd be a bit rush to do legislature issues the way dot
chambliss through because
he pleaded with the democrats want a number of seats in the new house so he
wouldn't even let that be seated mind he had some republicans are very very upset
with this
uh... it at that
secretary that every person top
nor civil war
and a very you get out of state where people have
work together prophetic next year's
uh... we we have ups here we have
dr orders org artstur
order you did packard will get a lot
state is doing well
uh... the auto industry's recovery episode terrible time
that basically set out a very divisive policy yeah this these breaks work for
less laws are
and not just destructive to
to unions butter workers in workers' rights as a whole
uh... i'd i'd buy was born in issue especially first twenty seven years
there it's my home state and i'm just astound done in my db my dad was able to
to be a member of the middle class basically worked into and i shot for
forty years that he was able to own his house by him but i need i d we bought a
new car
every two years took a vacation every year e he be raised four boys but is
through school because he had a union job and and and you know of all
all the states where i would think everybody gets this michigan would be at
the top of the list i'm astounded tube that uh...
uh... the rec center was was
uh... willing to do this much less able do you think it's possible james offer
that this could be a tiny can moment that this could you know where johnnie
tadi kan came and talked about forceable *** it all the sudden the women of
america said watch
is that really other republicans i think you and that this could be the moment
when working people around america got y
is that really what's going on
high-paid that could be
you know they're talking about editor about they really bad
iran is that there
sold out i have a chair one-term error
harbor
about which i thought was pretty clever
but uh...
eventually changes are everybody's doing it
uh... whether you're republican or democrat
why would separate do this
uh... we try to work with death
uh... but i really think that this is about is
politics i think
this is bigger that
are not big that the
protective awesome billionaire the pots employees ricochet yet
i don't think karl rove
i don't think the coke brothers really worry about
of workers rights report that you would unions
this about basically weakening
other democratic
democratic party admission very very close to paper
everywhere lives at all but i don't want this place
admission by nine points
and i think they're dumb bothered by that if they say partly because if you
can search wrong here
is the reason why we could back it robbery or sell robert the people of
michigan coke bottle what by such a large part
so i do think that this is basically
this is a plant the weekend
the democratic party
howdy we can cut back party weaken labor
i think that's what's going on here i think this is a lot bigger
but what it looks like it's obviously this is a
the big issue for us up but i think that's the reason of why they did it
that's quite the consequences are going to be unbelievably divisive
uh... but now we've got a look at what we do this is happening
for whatever reason it is happening
at what we've got to have to figure out if we go to court
how do we get this out the balance of power but but but
uh... that's gotta be our court i think that's what we're talking about right
now after the dust settles
that people should know that this law doesn't take affect the backstage
so you know that babbitt that's good or bad but
that is something there is a
who cast doubt it pick up what our strategy is
but i think that's a better real purple perot harbor
because uh...
uh... rick steiner randy always at all about my agenda applied to that
uh... people would ask him
at all of us such in the lame duck session
right after ah... probably got beat they do this apt but to put together say this
is part of a bigger picture
it's about power politics
two thousand forty without at six p
yeah i think i think you're right and any another small factor that might be
that the mission constitution says that
any law that goes in a place unless there's a super-majority this puts it
into a media fact
doesn't go into effect until the next next legislative session
uh... or the next year or so maybe by sneaking it in before the year habitat
dot it got a memoir type like that my parents will yasir world but by doing
all this year and we ought to affect next year so which is like you know in
three weeks
so are not into a panic and be going to affect the natives but my point is
otherwise if they if they did it in january he could take an entire year
before it goes into effect
and since by the way of speaking to the fact that stick to the idea you
intersect about
they uh... incredible
incredible idea i think this has to do with the nine hundred brand at the coat
brothers laundered through the republican
the governor's association of diverts interlocked
but but believe but also their properties or
and two thousand four keyboarding ruched who are already glutted up till i get
you watch support
uh... you have to do this i believe that's what's going on i was bribery
that there's a lot more participating at
but people do things that he said he wasn't going to do i think that's
they had everything so far this is the first watched for perfect money that
we're going to put out de klerk resistance once this is his paybacks for
the first