Thread: Union-Trib says Let Mexican Truck Roll

UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Let 'em roll

Union wrong in trying to ban Mexican trucks

September 1, 2007

The Teamsters union is in the protection racket. It protects its members from competition.

And in fighting to keep Mexican truck drivers off U.S. roadways, the Teamsters union has a simple and transparent goal: to artificially inflate the wages of unionized truck drivers in this country who complain that they can't compete with Mexican truckers who work for less.

That's all the controversy over Mexican trucks is about. It's a labor dispute and a power play by a powerful labor union.

Oh, you'll hear about outsourcing, or highway safety, or the worry that Mexican drivers don't speak English, or the possibility that Mexican trucks could bring drugs or illegal immigrants into the United States.

But those claims are nonsense. Those are just cultural hot buttons that union officials have been willing to push to get the public on their side. At their lowest moments, many of these officials have stoked nativist fears and stirred anti-Mexican sentiment.

Luckily, up to now, the union has failed. It struck out in trying to keep Mexican trucks off the table in trade negotiations. It failed again when it lobbied Congress to ban Mexican trucks outright; it had to settle for Congress merely setting restrictions.

And within the next few days, under a long-delayed provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a Bush administration plan to live up to it, Mexican trucks will start rolling across the U.S.-Mexico border.

But wait. In a last-ditch attempt to protect its members under the guise of protecting the American public, the Teamsters are asking a federal appeals court to issue an emergency injunction to block the Bush administration and keep the Mexican trucks off U.S. roadways.

The court should throw out this case. The Teamsters union is not known for giving up a fight. But here, it should. It is on the wrong side and doing itself no good.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib ... d1top.html

I stick out my tongue to whoever wrote that article.

let em roll indeed, right into a relative of this writers. That may change his mind.


I highly doubt a mexican truck driver has got the experiance required to drive in snow. I live in a midwestern state next to one of the great lakes. It can literally rain ice if the conditions are right. Those type of conditions are stressful for the best equipment, and best driver, now you're going to have a driver unfamiliar with even snow, with equipment that doesn't even have trailor breaks out on the road.

It's only going to be a matter of time before that truck slams into a family of 4, killing them, all because we didn't want to upset the sensative diplocatic feelings of mexico.

It's only going to be a matter of time before that truck slams into a family of 4, killing them, all because we didn't want to upset the sensative diplocatic feelings of mexico.

Seems like if that happens it would be time to file a suit against the federal government for their negligence in the matter.

Anyone who has ever lived in Mexico will tell you that for the price of a few 12-packs of beer (in the worse case a few hundred dollars), you can get any cop or federal official or officer to look the other way on your criminal enterprise. I know--I've seen it firsthand while living there!

I think we need to open our highways and trucking to Mexican trucking so we can swamp this country with millions of illegal aliens hidden in the cargo, or millions of pounds of drugs, or hundreds of Weapons of Mass Destruction and commando terrorists and let's get it over with---our gene pool can no longer think and act to protect America or its jobs from foreigners who---guess what---don;t have our best interest at heart---so let's just hurry up and help our enimies like MEXICO and al Qaeda take us down. We deserve it! Long live NAFTA, The North American Union, and viva Mexico---I already feel like a foreigner in my own country, so why stop there!

This person was so proud of his article he didn't even attach his/her name well I can see why what a pathetic article. Also is there something wrong with truckers protecting their wages?" What a Jerk!

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Does the UNION-TRIBUNE also encourage human and drug smuggling. Their is nothing wrong with competition, but our roads need to be safe and clearly having Mexican Trucks on the highways is a danger to all American Drivers.

Jillian,

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Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

This person was so proud of his article he didn't even attach his/her name well I can see why what a pathetic article. Also is there something wrong with truckers protecting their wages?" What a Jerk!

I had to make sure I didn't just miss the writer's name when I posted it but it just wasn't there. Wonder why?

Another email out:

Editor:

UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Let 'em roll

Union wrong in trying to ban Mexican trucks

September 1, 2007

What an utter bunch of bull. We can only believe the Union-Tribune is owned by one of the corporations pushing so hard for the SPP, NAU, and citizenship for illegals. Any editor that could write such tripe otherwise, shouldn't be the editor of a paper.



P.S.

NO! We are NOT truck drivers, have no relatives or friends that are truck drivers. BUT we do know when we are being bamboozled and lied to, by the government AND the MSM.