Word: teamster
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Ever since James R. Hoffa disappeared on July 30, a prime suspect in the case has been Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 58, onetime head of Teamster Local 560 in Union City, N.J., who still controls that fief while living in Hallandale, Fla. Provenzano and Hoffa, the domineering president of the Teamsters from 1957 to 1971, were once good friends but became bitter enemies when they were imprisoned together in Lewisburg, Pa., Provenzano for extortion and Hoffa for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Tony Pro wanted Hoffa to use his influence to reinstate the pension that Provenzano had lost when...
...industry's voice, noted that the great majority of trucking companies do $500,000 a year or less in business, and that there already are 15,000 trucking companies. The ATA snarled: "The trucking industry needs more competition like Custer needed more Indians." The International Brotherhood of Teamsters concurred, sensing that Ford's bill would keep rates and profits of big truckers smaller than they otherwise would be, and thus probably limit pay raises for drivers. At a meeting with Administration officials some weeks ago, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons vented these views in a profane tirade against...
Overall the election results hardly represent a victory for the UFW. Even where Chavez has won, the combined Teamster and no union vote has often outpolled the UFW total. Moreover, the Teamsters continue to hold contracts representing almost 45,000 workers, more than twice the UFW total, while there remain 150,000 farmworkers in California under no union that the UFW has as yet been unable to bring to election. Clearly Chavez is not the overwhelmingly popular folkhero or Christ figure among farmworkers that his supporters have claimed...
...fact that farmworkers are now registering their opinions, the UFW has not yet called off the boycotts. Chavez supporters argue that pressure is needed to force growers to sign contracts where the UFW has won. But such indiscriminate boycotts mean a loss of jobs and income for the Teamster workers who prefer to continue working, believing they can bargain successfully without such "support." This is also unfair to those workers who have voted for no union. Since the UFW represents only a small minority of the workers in the boycotted crops, this objection is especially important...
DURING THAT TIME, he kept scrupulous notes and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with Chavez, the other leaders of the movement, state legislators, Teamster organizers, and even "growers"--the term used in California for the captains of agribusiness. He has written a long sympathetic book describing Chavez's early childhood in Arizona, his family's deprivation during the Depression and flight to California, and Chavez's adult life as a union organizer...