Word: teamster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks now, Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa has been working hard to lance the most painful of the infections-but the old surgical methods are not what they used to be. Jimmy's main target is Cincinnati, where Dairy Driver James Luken, 39, former president of the city's Joint Teamster Council, last month led four dissident locals out of the union (TIME, Aug. 25). Hoffa at first sent in a team of 30 lawyers, organizers and well-muscled workers from loyal locals-headed by Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, his national second-in-command-to bring...
Hoffa's pros may soon have a bit more work than they can handle. Last week, Jimmy's Teamster empire had revolts brewing in a number of provinces: >In St. Louis, drivers at one of the city's largest cab companies have voted 100 to 97 to leave Teamster Local 405 and join an independent union. The NLRB has not certified the result because of a challenge to six ballots, but rebel leaders are confident that the vote will stand. > In Chicago, where cab drivers and mechanics recently voted out a Hoffa pal, Hoodlum Joey Glimco...
...Actually, 5 ft. 5½ in. * Jimmy is still trying. The latest issue of the magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel...
After his steamrollered re-election as president of the powerful Teamsters Union in Miami last month (TIME, July 14), James Riddle Hoffa seemed about as securely in control of his czardom as any tyrant could be. But last week in Cincinnati, 4,000 members of four Teamster locals voted all but unanimously to disaffiliate from Jimmy Hoffa's empire and sign on with unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Ending a 25-year Teamster grip on Chicago's taxicabs was an uphill job. Local 777 has long been run as the private preserve of hard-eyed Hoodlum Joey Glimco, who is known around Chicago as "Jimmy Hoffa's Pal Joey." Glimco controlled not only the union but also the 48-local Teamster Joint Council and a fistful of "Windy City" rackets as well. His various activities earned him an estimated $70,000 a month...