Teamsters Press Their Opposition To Mexican Trucks On U.S. Roads - 12/06/07
5th December 2007
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Loading ...The Teamsters continued there push against an attempt by the Bush Administration to open up the border to Mexican trucks with a border rally early Wednesday morning.
Jesse Russell reports:
A pilot program intended to eventually open United States highways to Mexican trucks is under fire by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters rallied in San Diego on Wednesday morning to express their opposition to the plan which they say is more than just a safety issue:
Tom Keeger is the Teamsters General Secretary Treasurer:
[Keeger]: Mexican drivers don’t have to live up to the same standards that the drivers in the United States have to. It’s a safety issue, it’s an environmental issue. It’s an issue that could be a terrorist issue. Our drivers have to have a commercial drivers license, they have to have random drug testing, standardized hours – none of that applies to Mexican drivers.