Word: afl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFL-CIO yesterday was reported considering a plan to offer special charters in the federation to any Teamsters Union locals wanting to secede from their expelled parent truck union. Federation sources said the AFL-CIO has received a number of such requests from Teamsters locals and probably will decide on the matter at the AFL-CIO Executive Council sessions starting Feb. 3 at Miami Beach...
Jimmy Hoffa had to weather a temporary storm of Senate committee accusations, court injunctions, and ultimatums from the AFL-CIO to achieve one of the most powerful executive positions in organized labor, but his victory will come as a surprise to no one. One thing, however, is certain: Hoffa is now in a fight that started, rather than ended with his triumph at Miami Beach last week...
...immediate problem concerns the relationship between the AFL-CIO and Hoffa's Teamsters. George Meany, president of the parent union, is expected to urge suspension of the Teamsters and the next step--complete expulsion--would be left up to the AFL-CIO convention this December. Hoffa has appealed to Meany and his executive council to drop the ouster movement, but the Ethical Practices Committee has already gone too far to back down now. The result of a clear split between the AFL-CIO and the giant Teamsters bloc would be a labor war injurious both to national business...
...matter how successful the McClellan committee and the anti-Hoffa Teamsters may be in the next few months, it is almost certain that Meany and the AFL-CIO will not sit back and let Hoffa flaunt their ultimatums. They will bring as much pressure to bear on Hoffa as they can in the next few months and in December might easily decide to expel him. But we hope that the AFL-CIO does not take this step, for while it might destroy Hoffa, its effects would be far-reaching. It would be a far better thing to have Hoffa defeated...
Then the delegates howled approval of a motion to expunge the AFL-CIO charges from the convention record...