Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairly fluently, were made into organizers. At Sam Andrews we learned from the farmworkers themselves that at the end of the week they are commonly paid for fewer hours than they worked. They get no compensation if they are hurt or sprayed with pesticide. They are still paying the Teamsters local $10 per month but they don't know what for. There was an old Teamster contract at Sam Andrews, but as of last March the Teamsters National, having lost 75 per cent of the elections, withdrew from the fields and agreed that they will...
...determination to reduce the work force further and his intention to pare fringe benefits. Contracts covering most of the employees expire between March 30 and June 30, and the pugnacious transit workers are first in line. Yet last week, even before the vote tally was in, local Teamster Chief Barry Feinstein was at Koch's private headquarters to pay his respects. "I anticipate a very tough year," said the man whose followers snarled the city in 1971 by locking drawbridges in open positions. "But I'm a pragmatic trade unionist and I will bargain." Another caller come...
...Teamsters and embezzlers The report found nothing to criticize in the fact that in March 1976 Lance's Atlanta bank landed the right to manage $17.5 million in Teamster pension funds for an undisclosed fee. It noted that, while Lance had helped to initiate the agreement with the Teamsters, he had not taken part in the detailed negotiations. Nor did the report fault Lance specifically for the Atlanta bank's willingness to lend one of the Calhoun bank's officers, Billy L. Campbell, as much as $250,000 only weeks before his arrest for embezzling nearly...
...Justice Department has assigned more than 100 FBI agents to the Teamster probe-the most intensive investigation of the union since Robert...
Kennedy put Hoffa behind bars in 1967. Thus far, investigators have implicated two union chiefs in the payoff-Fitzsimmons and Anthony (Tony) Provenzano, Teamster boss in New Jersey until he was convicted for labor racketeering in 1963. After Provenzano was released from prison in 1970, he too was barred from union activities, but for five years, and he nonetheless continued to wield great power among Teamsters. He is regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in Hoffa's disappearance...