Teamsters to Honor UAW Picket Lines

Official Statement of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2007; The following is a statement of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa:

The Teamsters, the largest transportation union in North America, will stand with our 73,000 UAW brothers and sisters in their fight with General Motors. Teamsters will not cross a UAW picket line and our 10,000 automotive transport members will not deliver GM cars.

It is time to put a stop to corporate America's attack on the security of hardworking men and women in the United States.

Workers should not solely bear the brunt of decades of bad business decisions by GM management. By outsourcing good jobs and creating a growing environment of economic and job insecurity, GM has failed its workers and its customers.

This struggle highlights the ever-growing crisis in our nation's health care system and corporate America's continued pursuit of unfair trade deals. This approach has failed the American worker and is destroying the middle class.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 1.4 million workers in North America and nearly 10,000 drivers in the automobile transport industry.