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							<title><![CDATA[Workers Lead Revolt Against Poverty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130814/OPINION01/308140007/1008/OPINION01/Workers-lead-global-revolution-against-poverty</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Corporations are squeezing workers across the globe to maximize profits and minimize wages. But workers are standing up and fighting back.Whether it&rsquo;s fast-food workers in Detroit and Flint walking off the job July 31 as part of one-day strikes held across the U.S. or mass protests...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Decline: It's the Trade Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130313/OPINION01/303130320/1008/America-s-decline-s-trade-deficit-stupid</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a proud American, it's difficult to watch vital government programs cut mindlessly because of sequestration.And as a proud Michiganian, it's painful to anticipate Detroit's emergency financial manager because of the city's troubles.I'm afraid sequestration won't solve America's fiscal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snyder Declares Civil War in Michigan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121212/OPINION03/212120311/1008/OPINION01/Labor-voices-Gov-Snyder-declares-civil-war-Michigan</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Working families are taking to the streets, the shopping malls and to Lansing to protest the attempt to enact a law that conveys no rights and provides no work.The past few days of action are only the opening salvo in Michigan's civil war. It is a fight between billionaires who want to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt to Middle Class: Get Used to Being Poor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120808/OPINION03/208080316/1008/OPINION01/Romney-s-plan-middle-class-Get-used-being-poor</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's "plan for a stronger middle class" reads like a manifesto in the war on workers &mdash; for the other side.It isn't even a plan, and it certainly won't strengthen the middle class. It's simply an outline of results that he wishes will happen: lower taxes for the wealthy,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Stop the War on Workers]]></title>
							<link>http://detnews.com/article/20111214/OPINION03/112140316/1008/OPINION01/It-s-time-stop-war-workers</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hardworking Americans tried to send a message to elected leaders in 2011 when they took to the statehouses, the streets and the public parks. That message was loud and clear: "Stop the war on workers."Americans may not have the statistics at their fingertips, but they're aware this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Union Fight Against GOP Will Continue]]></title>
							<link>http://detnews.com/article/20110914/OPINION03/109140311/1008/opinion01/Union-fight-against-GOP-will-continue</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, I told a Labor Day crowd here in Detroit that there's a war on workers &mdash; a war we didn't start, but one we intend to fight.Few people disagreed with me when I said there was a sustained, coordinated attack on workers being waged here in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Ills Not Caused by Unions]]></title>
							<link>http://detnews.com/article/20110209/OPINION03/102090324/1008/opinion01/American-ills-not-caused-by-unions</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 19th-century robber baron Jay Gould once said, "I can hire half the working class to shoot the other half." Gould's vision of class warfare is being played out today in the shameful attacks on public employees. These attacks are secretly financed and planned by modern-day Jay Goulds...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Labor Movement Fights for Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://detnews.com/article/20100414/OPINION03/4140325/1008/OPINION01/Labor-movement-fights-in-support-of-the-middle-class</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Hoffa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today I am honored to inaugurate the "Labor Leaders on Labor" lecture series at Wayne State University.Sometimes it's a challenge for me to step outside of my role as a union leader and comment objectively about the significance of organized labor. After all, I was born into a Teamster...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strengthening Unions Will Rebuild Economy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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