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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

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • Teamster Convention reveals fatal flaw in election rules

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  • Book review: Two contrasting views on union corruption

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    By William Kornblum

    Like deadly parasites, gangsters and labor racketeers feast on the finances and pensions of union members. This is an old and painful story for AUD members, but two new books take a hard look at the causes and consequences of union corruption. Unfortunately, only one of these books offers a detailed and critical analysis of what strategies work best to rid the house of labor of its pernicious pests.

  • Harvey for TDU charges Teamster IRB coddles top Hoffa aide

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$100 Plus Story

  • 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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