Teamsters’ Hoffa Blasts NAFTA, Praises Obama

(Pittsburgh-Tribune)

International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James Hoffa blasted NAFTA as the result of “corporate greed” that shows “total disregard for workers” during a visit with the Tribune-Review...

The Teamsters chief was in Pittsburgh visiting work places to drum up support for presidential candidate Barack Obama, whom the union endorsed on Feb. 20. The stop was part of Hoffa’s “Working Class Convoy for Change” tour of several Pennsylvania cities…

Hoffa faulted the North American Free Trade Agreement for sending U.S. jobs to Mexico and overseas, while allowing tainted food and products with leaded paint to be imported from China.
“(Obama) is the best for organized labor,” said Hoffa, citing the U.S. senator's support of reform of strikers’ rights laws and his opposition to NAFTA.