Billy Koehler died on March 7, 2009, for lack of health insurance. Mitt Romney said on October 10, 2012, that's impossible. The Republican nominee for president told the Columbus Dispatch last week: We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance. Technically, that's true...
The latest monthly U.S. trade figures were released this morning by the Department of Commerce: In August 2012, the U.S. racked up an international goods and services trade deficit of $44.2 billion. The monthly goods deficit with China fell slightly to $28.7 billion in August, down from $29.4...
Teamsters General President Calls on Members to Protect Their Voice in Politics (WASHINGTON) –Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa traveled across California to attend union rallies in Los Angeles and San Jose and get out the vote to defeat Proposition 32, a measure that seeks to prohibit...
(LOS ANGELES) – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa will sweep across California visiting members at worksites and at rallies to help get out the vote to defeat Prop. 32. Hoffa will hit the ground running, meeting with members beginning in Los Angeles, Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. Prop. 32...
Republicans' reaction to last week's Monday Night Football debacle was record-breaking given their decades of hating on union workers. After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and even...
Workers Unite for Respect, Safety and Better Working Conditions (Crestwood, Ill.) – The men and women who transport schoolchildren for Alpha School Bus in Crestwood, Ill., have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 777 in Lyons, Ill., after a hard-fought campaign to win respect, better school...
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, son of an American Motors CEO, naturally says he loves American cars. His wife, as he put it, "drives a couple of Cadillacs."He's installing an elevator in his beach mansion just for his cars. Though a millionaire, he rejected flying his five sons...
The GOP, the party of exclusion -- no gays seeking marriage allowed, also no Hispanics, no black people, no poor people who are on or ever were on welfare, and no women who are on or ever were on birth control -- yeah, that private...
The rich, those born sucking silver spoons like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, really are different from the middle class. The wealthy grow up and live their lives wrapped in security. That's what gives them the arrogance to organize a posse to hold down a...
This guy, Edward DeMarco, is deliberately damaging America -- promoting foreclosures, high unemployment and excessive taxes. This guy, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has aggressively denied help to eviction-imperiled homeowners. And now he's threatening to prevent towns from implementing their own plans to rescue...