Hoffa Calls on Bloggers to Be the Voice of Working Families

General President Jim Hoffa, at a Teamsters rally and cookout today at the YearlyKos Convention, stressed the importance of labor and the Netroots community joining forces to build a stronger progressive movement to strengthen America’s working families.

The event followed the conclusion of the YearlyKos presidential forum and was attended by more than 1,500 people, including bloggers and Chicago-area Teamsters who came out to show their support.

“All of you in the Netroots community are giving a voice back to working families,” said Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa. “We share the same goals for a progressive America, an America that is strong.”

Daily Kos founder Marcos Moulitsas arrived to the rally with Hoffa in style, climbing out of a tractor trailer with horns blaring and lights flashing. Moulitsas expressed similar views as Hoffa on the natural partnership between the labor movement and the Netroots community.

“There’s no better way to reach people than through unions,” Moulitsas said. “We need a healthy labor movement and the Teamsters are growing it and giving us more Democrats.”

Hoffa called on the bloggers to hold politicians accountable, regardless of their party.

“You guys are tough on everybody,” Hoffa said. “You make the politicians uncomfortable and that’s good – we need to shake up the system.”