Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa's own Detroit bailiwick, Teamster Business Agent Zigmont Snyder owned a nonunion car-wash that paid workers as little as $1 a day. Many a Hoffa crony has collected payoffs from employers for "sweetheart" contracts. Teamster Officer Gerald Connelly negotiated Teamster sweetheart contracts in Minneapolis, including one that lowered wages from $1.32 an hour to $1, another that cut workers back from $65 a week...
...Hoffa himself, when he was pushing into New York in 1954, tried to undercut New York Teamster Thomas Hickey by offering trucking companies better terms than Hickey - at the expense of the Teamster rank and file. In several states, Hoffa permitted trucking firms, against drivers' protests, to save money by paying drivers an extra 1¼ or 1½ a mile in lieu of more expensive fringe benefits. A confidential memorandum from an Ohio trucking executive reports a conversation with George Maxwell, head of the Steel Truckers Employers Association. Says the memo, photostated by McClellan committee investigators: "George told...
Looking for Loopholes. Despite his "speaks for itself" record and all the attacks it has stirred up against him, Jimmy Hoffa is still cockily confident, brimful of big plans for the future, including an alliance of all land, water and air transport unions...
Expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has increased Hoffa's power instead of denting it. The $840,000 a year that the Teamsters used to pay into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. treasury is now available for other uses. And expulsion left Hoffa free to raid the jurisdictions of A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, which he has done gleefully...
...labor bill might trim Hoffa's power, especially if the Senate adopts the House bill's restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts-longtime Teamster weapons. But with his lawyers already at work looking for loopholes, Hoffa is going to make every effort to go on behaving like Hoffa. Last week he finished buying control of the Miami National Bank so that he can use the bank to get around labor-bill controls on what he does with Teamster welfare-fund money. He plans to channel welfare-fund millions into Miami National and then distribute the money...