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:: Thursday, November 27, 2003 ::
Union workers' anger may give Gephardt a boost By Matt Stearns
In Des Moines, contract talks between the United Steelworkers and Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. collapsed partly because of the company's resistance to making capital improvements to the plant, said Dennis Green, the union local's vice president. Green suspects the company wants the plant to 'die on the vine.'
One big union backing Gephardt is the Teamsters, whose Cedar Rapids local has lost about 500 jobs to NAFTA, said Ron Hunt, the local's secretary-treasurer.
'Jimmy's made no bones about it,' said Hunt, referring to Teamsters International President James P. Hoffa. 'We're going balls to the wall for Gephardt. This is what I look at: Who's gonna take care of my people? He's battin' 1.000 with us.'------------------------------------------- posted 6:57 AM :: reference link ::
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