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Article: James Hoffa.(International Brotherhood of Teamsters may be making comeback as politically influential)(Interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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Teamsters President James P. Hoffa makes sure that visitors don't miss a framed photograph on his office wall: a snapshot of his broadly smiling self, marching alongside a woman dressed as a turtle. The occasion: the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999, only a few months after Hoffa had taken the helm of the massive union. With a name out of labor's storied past, Hoffa appeared to be leading the Teamsters into a bold new future. To weigh in against lower trade barriers, he had forged an alliance between his union of hard-bitten truck drivers and laborers and the environmentalists who demonstrated in costume.
But two years later, the ...