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Teamsters Union president Ron Carey won a huge battle for organized labor last week when he arm wrestled UPS into settling a strike. But he will have to refight the bitter war for the presidency of his union. A court overseer has found that Carey's campaign consultants tainted his election win over James P. Hoffa Jr. last year. Election overseer Barbara Zack Quindel, who establishes fact on behalf of the court, found that $221,000 in improper contributions to the Teamsters for a Corruption Free Union had been funneled to Carey's campaign. "The members cannot have confidence...
Before the Rodney King beating, when Los Angeles cops practiced their own style of macho in-your-face policing, crime did not decline. But when, as a result of widespread and bitter criticism in the King case, the L.A.P.D. retreated from such aggressive policing, crime did dip. Crime also dropped in cities practicing community policing, which I define as a partnership effort with neighborhood groups in solving such problems as noisy bars, crack houses and prostitution. As police chief for 15 years in San Jose, Calif., I saw this approach succeed many times where indiscriminate crackdowns had failed. San Jose...
Poor Ron Carey. He could be a labor hero for cleaning up the Teamsters Union since becoming its president in 1991. But that distinction has eluded him. Carey, 61, is in the middle of a bitter internal power struggle as well as a federal investigation into charges that an aide diverted more than $100,000 of union funds last year to Carey's campaign for re-election. To these headaches is added the wrath of millions of Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts...
Timothy McVeigh will make a statement at his formal sentencing tomorrow in Judge Matsch's Denver courtroom -- and it's likely to contain few kind words for Stephen Jones, who McVeigh wants the court to yank from his case. "He screwed up badly but I'm not bitter," McVeigh told the Buffalo News Tuesday. "I only want him off my appeal...
...dispute is settled. At issue for the Teamsters is limits on subcontracting and more full-time jobs. The company's desire to withdraw from the Teamsters' multi-employer pension and health funds is another key sticking point in the dispute. While the union has vowed to fight to the bitter end, the strike is certain to cost it dearly, with weekly expenditures reaching $10 million, much of it in the form of strike benefits...