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Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU)

UDR Story

  • 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.

$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

    $100 Plus News: What made you write the story now? Were you working on it for some time?
  • Legal Decisions: Serafinn vs. IBT Local 722

    Mark Serafinn, a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and former President of Local 722 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), had won a jury trial in federal district court that awarded him compensatory and punitive damages for the Local's violation of his LMRDA free speech rights. The federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois also awarded Serafinn attorneys' fees. Serafinn and the Local each appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit claiming erroneous district court rulings during the course of the proceeding.

  • 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.

Book Review

  • Militancy & union democracy: a radicals’ view



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