Nationwide Campaign Launched To Save Carhaul Industry, Skilled Jobs
NEW YORK - Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa will join Teamster carhaulers
Saturday at a General Motors dealership on Long Island to hand out leaflets
alerting car buyers of efforts by bailed-out auto giants to destroy the auto
transport industry.
The Teamsters Union is launching a national campaign to protect good-paying,
skilled, middle-class carhaul jobs at companies at risk of going bankrupt
under demands by GM and Chrysler for dramatic and unsustainable cuts that will
not be passed on to consumers. GM and Chrysler received billions of dollars in
taxpayer bailout funds intended to save American jobs.
Hoffa and Teamster members will warn consumers that the cars they purchase
could be delivered by inexperienced drivers with substandard equipment that
greatly risk damaging the new vehicles. Yet customers will still be charged
mandatory "destination fees" of $900 or more that have no relation to the
actual cost of transporting a vehicle.
For more information, go to www.carbuyersbeware.com
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 17, 4-5 p.m.
WHO: Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President
Teamster carhaul members
WHAT: Distributing leaflets warning customers about the outrageous demands of
GM and Chrysler that will destroy the auto transport industry
WHERE: City Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Hummer,
43-60 Northern Blvd.
Long Island City, NY 11101
CONTACT: Galen Munroe, +1-202-439-7427,gmunroe@teamster.org
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Oct. 16/
SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters
