Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago last week the 5,200 cab drivers and mechanics of Teamster Local 777 proved that in union there is strength -and also demonstrated why Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa dislikes the secret ballot. In an election supervised not only by the National Labor Relations Board but also by Chicago police, Local 777's members made it abundantly clear that they want no more truck with the Teamsters...
Hoffa flew in with his wife* and three goals: to clear his clouded claim to the Teamster presidency, which he has held "provisionally" under a 1958 federal court order; to centralize union authority firmly in his own muscular hands; to broaden the brotherhood's charter and set the Teamsters free to organize anyone from airline stewardesses to zoo keepers. By week's end, Hoffa accomplished all three...
...marathon polling performance that took two days and a four-hour night session. As constitution-committee chairman, Hoffa had dictated the changes. As convention chairman, he conducted the loud ceremony of their approval. With one hand on his gavel and the other on switches that controlled floor microphones, the Teamster boss directed his delegates through 92 pages of "reform." Among the amendments: ¶A Hoffa pay raise from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, plus unlimited expenses, making him labor's highest-paid leader. There were more modest raises for vice presidents ($500 more a month) and trustees...
...Removal of Teamster headquarters from Washington to Detroit, ostensibly to improve working conditions, actually to make it more difficult for the Justice Department to prosecute Hoffa, who will be on his home ground...
...Slight, grey-blonde Josephine Poszywak Hoffa, 43, served coffee, led a conga line, captivated Teamster wives. "She's a doll,".said one, "with no airs." Mrs. Hoffa also revealed her formula for 24 years of happy marriage: "Don't nag him. If he's good to you, has a good job, and is doing what he wants to do, just be grateful...