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Jimmy Hoffa, on Michigan: "We're Going to Have a Civil War"

Barbara3722 Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 1:16 PM

Dear Marlette John, You really need to work on getting out more, you have a very skewed idea of reality. "You" are free to form a club or a 'union' you shouldn't, however, be able to force anyone else to join. >What if the government told you that you MUST provide benefits to non-members who pay no dues? Incidentally, may I point out that unions do not provide the benefits which originate from the employer.

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Marlette John Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 1:32 PM

The employer wants to pay as little as possible. Collective bargaining forces wages upward. That is a benefit to workers.

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Jimmy Hoffa, on Michigan: "We're Going to Have a Civil War"

Yes, this is the same elegant creature who screeched about "taking out" Tea Party "son-of-a-bitches" [sic] at a presidential event last year. In case you'd forgotten, both the White House and the DNC conspicuously declined to repudiate his vituperation at the time. Now Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. has taken his anger mismanagement show to CNN, seething about an incipient "civil war" in Michigan:

Jimmy Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Tuesday he expects Michigan unions and lawmakers to break out into "civil war" after the state...

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