Word: hoffa
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...Teamsters, like many unions, waited until former North Carolina Senator John Edwards dropped out of the race before endorsing. "We waited for Edwards to get out of the race, that changed the dynamic when he got out," said Jimmy Hoffa Jr., head of the Teamsters. His union did a third poll of their members after Edwards left the race. The first two had Edwards, Clinton and Obama all within the margin of error of one another. The last poll had Obama leading Clinton by double digits. Andy Stern, SEIU president, said his union saw similar results in its internal polls...
...Jimmy Hoffa Found - in Elvis' Grave...
...introduced a bill, but last week it held a hearing on U.S.-China trade, where labor leaders and corporate chiefs aired their grievances about China's unfair trade practices - from its unwillingness to enforce a minimum wage to its negligent enforcement of intellectual property law. James Hoffa, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, fresh from his recent tour of Chinese cities, told the committee that China's "first priority is economic progress. It second priority is people." Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, blasted China for breaking the rules of the WTO, behavior he called...
USAGE Commutations often have qualifiers. Nixon reduced Jimmy Hoffa's jail term in 1971, provided the Teamster didn't run the union for 10 years...
Telephone records show that as the assassination date approached, Ruby made numerous calls to relatively high Mob figures in Chicago, New Orleans and Los Angeles, as well as to two associates of Jimmy Hoffa's. He later told the FBI that the calls were made to get union help in stopping other Dallas clubs from using amateur strippers. Yet the gangsters he called would not seem likely to trouble themselves with such petty problems...