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  • Hoffa faces two challengers for IBT president
    It’s now official.  Two rival candidates will be on the ballot to oppose Jimmy Hoffa for president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the coming union election. Sandy Pope and Fred Gegare were both formally nominated by receiving support from more than 5% of the delegates who signified their choice by secret ballot at the July international union convention.  
     
  • Sandy Pope, insurgent candidate for Teamster president

    By filing nominating petitions signed by over 50,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Sandy Pope won recognition as an accredited candidate for general president in opposition to incumbent James Hoffa. In November, her candidacy was endorsed by cheering delegates at the convention of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (www.tdu.org). Teamsters elect international officers by direct membership vote.

  • Reformers win in UPS local once headed by Ron Carey

    Teamsters for a Democratic Union (http://tdu.org) has some interesting news to report.

  • Teamster elections: inspiration from the ground up

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    The fifth supervised Teamster election under a federal consent decree ended on November 18th, 2006 with the Hoffa slate declared the victors. They were challenged by an opposition slate led by Portland Oregon Local 206 secretary treasurer Tom Leedham and New York City Local 805 president Sandy Pope, and endorsed by the Teamster reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU).

  • Is the Teamsters Union safe for dissenters? An exchange.

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    Bradley T. Raymond is an attorney who, as he informs us, has represented the Teamsters union. He takes umbrage at our story in UDR No.142 entitled "Teamsters union: still dangerous for dissenters."
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    "As a reader of Union Democracy Review, and the attorney who represented the IBT in a number of protest cases during the 2000-2001 election, I offer the following personal observations in regard to your recent article entitled, "Teamsters Union: Still Dangerous for Dissenters":

  • The Vindication of Ron Carey

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    By Ken Crowe

    (The following is a summary ofa full account which appears in the print version of Union Democracy Review. Copies can be ordered from AUD)

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  • An interview with Ken Crowe, author of The Truckers
    Kenneth C. Crowe has covered labor for Newsday and has won numerous journalism awards. His works include America for Sale (1978) and Collision: How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters (1991). Here he talks about his new novel with our $100 Plus Club News. See our review of The Truckers

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  • UNION DEMOCRACY = UNION POWER

    (Part One of a $100 Plus Club News Special Report on a University of Illinois Forum on Union Democracy & Effective Union Leadership)

    Incumbent union officers tend to think of union democracy as a threat to incumbent power. This is a basic misconception. Union democracy is about union member power, and union member power is union power. Because union democracy activism usually focuses on deposing corrupt, ineffectual, or uncaring union officers, it is not widely understood that an effective union is one that cultivates its members' power.

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