IBT Local 82

UDR Story

• It’s happening in the Teamsters Union

  
  
  

  At the IRB

  Local 82, Boston

• 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.

• 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.