Word: hoffa
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Sources tell TIME the suit could also name the Democratic National Committee and RICHARD TRUMKA, No. 2 at the AFL-CIO. Current Teamster president JAMES P. HOFFA says he and his legal team will "soon decide" who gets named...
...Sources tell TIME the suit could also name the Democratic National Committee and Richard Trumka, No. 2 at the AFL-CIO. Current Teamster president James P. Hoffa says he and his legal team will "soon decide" who gets named...
...because they were wide enough to prevent him from jumping over them. But not even his union brothers were prepared for what they found two weeks ago. The 73-year-old Teamster legend was ousted from his Philadelphia union after a predawn raid ordered by political foe James P. Hoffa, the newly elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who said Morris was preparing for a "war." Teamster officials discovered tractor trailers containing enough shotguns, pistols, stun guns, pepper spray, helmets and ammunition to outfit a small army...
Last week Hoffa's agents and Morris' loyalists were locked in confrontation at the union hall, separated by the Philadelphia police. Inside the building, Jim Smith, a former Morris protege helping run the local, said shakily, "I'm scared for me; I'm scared for my family. He is capable of anything...
Morris says he sees his removal as Hoffa's revenge for his support of Ron Carey, the disgraced Teamster president who was forced from office for using union funds to rig an election. Morris served as vice president of the international union under Carey. A federal court last week blocked Morris' bid to return to his local, but he vows the only way he will leave "is toes...