Teamsters sue to block Mexican trucks
Nov 29, 2011 | 04:35 PM
| Corinna Petry
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Teamsters,
cross-border trucking,
pilot program,
Mexico,
trucks
CHICAGO — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has filed an appeal to block a U.S. Department of Transportation pilot program that allows Mexican trucks to enter the United States.
"Opening the border to these dangerous, dirty trucks is an attack on highway safety, on American truckers and warehouse workers, on border security and on our environment," Teamsters president James Hoffa said in a statement. "It’s outrageous enough that we’ve outsourced millions of jobs to foreign countries, but now we’re bringing foreign workers across the border into the United States....
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