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Article: Imperfect Union.(Technology Information)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- March 12, 2001
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For all the Teamsters' supposed re-energizing since James P. Hoffa became president, there's one important area where the union needs considerable work: organizing.
Ever since the McClellan Committee investigations of racketeering in the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has occupied a lurid place in the American imagination. From Jimmy Hoffa to "Tony Pro," from "Red" Dorfman to Jackie Presser, the Teamsters have been known as the id of the labor movement--a seething hotbed of greed, violence, and corruption. Recent Teamsters President Ron Carey and his aides were accused of laundering money from the union treasury for use in Carey's 1996 ...