Teamsters Independent Review Board (IRB)

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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.  

   
• It’s happening in the Teamsters Union

  
  
  

  At the IRB

  Local 82, Boston

• 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.

• Teamsters IRB focuses on Local 82, a danger spot

  Eddie Flaherty, a member of Teamsters Local 82 in Boston, was beaten so badly that he ended up in the hospital. His attacker was a local staff employee, a felon who got the job right after his release from prison. Flaherty, the victim, was a critic of John Perry, Local 82 secretary treasurer.

• Reformers win in UPS local once headed by Ron Carey

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

• In the Teamsters Union: What’s the dollar cost of cruel beatings?

  The Teamsters Independent Review Board has been doing a scrupulous job of policing the union for corruption and expelling characters with organized crime connections. But some Teamster reformers feel that the Board has been slow in dealing with the kind of offenses against union democracy that resist evaluation in dollars, like intimidation, election fraud, and blacklisting. Which makes reports of the Board's investigation into events in Local 82 (in TDU's Convoy-Dispatch) of special interest.

• At the Teamsters Independent Review Board

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  The board still has plenty of work to do. Its 150th report in December, stated that 85 calls had been received on its hot line since the previous report.

• Harvey for TDU charges Teamster IRB coddles top Hoffa aide

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• New York Teamster charged: RISE uncovers corruption before its demise

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  In one of its last acts before Edwin Stier dissolved the project, RISE uncovered the derelictions of Anthony Rumore and brought the facts to the Independent Review Board, the federal court-appointed body charged with exorcising crime from the Teamsters union. Rumore is president of Joint Council 16 in New York and of the 3,900-member Local 812. He is charged before the IRB with forcing his business agents to act as his bag men and as his personal errand boys.

• The fall of RISE in the Teamsters union and A double miscalculation ended RISE

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  The fall of RISE in the Teamsters union

  In a letter to the Teamsters' general secretary-treasurer on April 28, Edwin Stier, initiator and architect of RISE, the union's self-reform program, resigned from the project and announced its dissolution. His letter of resignation was no diplomatic mealy-mouthed evasion of the reality but a hard-hitting statement of his findings: