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Union objects to test that lets Mexican trucks expand routes in U.S.
By John Hughes
Bloomberg News
Published on Thursday, Feb 07, 2008
The Teamsters union, which represents 100,000 long-haul truck drivers, said it will campaign for the firing of U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters for allowing Mexican carriers to expand operations in the U.S.
Peters violated a federal law enacted Dec. 26 that says she may not ''establish'' a Mexican truck pilot program, Teamsters President James Hoffa said Wednesday.
The union, based in Washington, said its campaign will start today and have bumper stickers, posters, radio ads, a Web site and a telephone hot line.
''She's endangering people on the highway by permitting Mexican trucks,'' Hoffa said in an interview. ''We want to raise the level of people's knowledge of what she's doing.''
Members of Congress and labor unions have been fighting President Bush's effort to open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, citing potential U.S. job losses and concerns that safety will be compromised. They said they hoped the new law would end the test program.
The Bush administration contends that the law allows it to maintain the test program. Peters in September approved the first Mexican truck company to carry cargo beyond a 25-mile zone inside the U.S. border as part of a one-year trial. Twelve carriers with 42 trucks were approved as of Feb. 4, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Web site.
Peters, in a brief interview as she left a Senate hearing room Wednesday, said she wasn't aware of the Teamsters campaign.
Brian Turmail, a department spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement that ''this is the kind of pathetic tactic some special interest groups actually resort to when the facts aren't on their side and courts keep ruling against them.''
The Teamsters union, which represents 100,000 long-haul truck drivers, said it will campaign for the firing of U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters for allowing Mexican carriers to expand operations in the U.S.
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