Article: Star Market cries foul over $10,000-a-day fine

Shortly after Teamsters reformer Neil J. Henderson won election last May as an international union delegate, he was abruptly fired by his employer, Star Market, for allegedly leaving work a few minutes early to buy cold medicine.

Stunned, he was forced to turn to the very entrenched union officials he opposes to help him get his job back. They failed. But the 33-year-old warehouse worker -- used to battling long odds against both his company and union bosses -- had one more card to play.

And now it is Star Market's turn to be stunned.

In an unprecedented case, federal court officials supervising the cleanup of the nation's largest labor union have used a 1989 anticorruption consent order ...

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