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...read the latest headlines about American labor unions, you might think you were in a time warp: membership on the rise, reports of widespread corruption, the Teamsters headed by a guy named Hoffa. A report released by the Labor Department this week shows that unionism is on the rise for the first time in over two decades. The reason is simple enough - just as the nation is experiencing its first labor shortages in decades, workers are in a position to make greater demands. Even tech firms, the Wild West of modern American capitalism, have gone union in recent years, with...
...coffers. AFSCME's leadership says such corruption has become possible through a recent decentralization that has given much of the power back to the locals - undoing decades' worth of power consolidation, which was originally enacted largely to better police the unions. One of the main criticisms of the younger Hoffa's tenure has been his push to re-decentralize the Teamsters. His critics say this would return the nation's most famous (and third largest) union to its notorious 1950s heyday, when mobsters ran the locals and local bosses got fat on kickbacks. Where's Terry ("I coulda been...
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...
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...