{"id":2573,"date":"2003-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:10","slug":"teamsters-union-to-triple-pac-spending-to-defeat-all-gop-candidates-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/teamsters-union-to-triple-pac-spending-to-defeat-all-gop-candidates-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamsters Union to Triple PAC Spending to Defeat \u201cAll GOP Candidates\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington, D.C. (March 12, 2003)<\/b> \u2014 Inside sources reveal that former Hoffa campaign chief and Teamsters union national field director, Todd Thompson, will be tasked with tripling contributions to the Teamsters political action committee (PAC) and that the funds will be spent to defeat \u00aball GOP candidates\u00bb in the 2004 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>This development appears to represent a shift in strategy by the union\u2019s political operatives who had been willing to support a few left-wing Republicans in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2002 election cycle the Teamster\u2019s PAC, known as DRIVE, spent $2.3 million on behalf of federal candidates.  86 percent of the contributions went to Democrat party candidates \u2013 even though studies have consistently shown that 40 percent of union households vote for other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis move further demonstrates that Teamsters union officials are totally out of touch with the interests of rank-and-file workers,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cDespite all of James Hoffa\u2019s rhetoric about reaching out to Republicans, the reality is that Teamsters officials are nothing more than Democrat party shills.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This latest move by the union hierarchy also points up the failure of a strategy pursued by the White House political office to make core policy concessions in exchange for union political support.  Despite these concessions, union officials have made ongoing attacks on Bush and other Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>For example, over the past eighteen months, the White House political office has: 1) given Teamsters and Carpenters officials significant influence over selection of nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); 2) encouraged Congress not to hold hearings on legislation that would be embarrassing to union officials, such as legislation to end compulsory unionism; 3) filed arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing review of a NLRB decision that gutted employee rights not to pay forced union dues spent to support objectionable union activities; 4) inserted a discriminatory union-only project labor agreement in the Alaska energy legislation; and 5) signaled its intention to release the corrupt Teamsters union from federal oversight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone in the White House who believed they could get Big Labor bosses to play nice in the 2004 elections this is a loud wake up call,\u201d said Gleason.  \u201cThe Teamsters hierarchy and other union bosses are predictably focused on defeating George W. 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