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...Carey, a former UPS driver, the strike by 185,000 Teamsters over issues ranging from the company's pension plan to part-time workers represents a desperate two-front battle. He sorely needs a big win to maintain his political advantage over archrival James Hoffa Jr., son of the notorious Teamster boss who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Carey edged Hoffa in the race for the presidency last fall, but Hoffa has jumped on the fund-raising charges to demand a new election. "If Carey loses the strike or is perceived to have lost, his position...
...corporate image tattered and torn by three days of high-voltage clashes with striking Teamster workers, UPS hopes to gain leverage at today's negotiations by wheeling out a battery of alums eager to tell the media about their "favorable UPS experience...
When an election protest was filed by John Murphy, president of a Boston Teamsters local and a supporter of Carey's opponent, Jimmy Hoffa Jr., the couple refused to open their financial records to the federal election officer. Further investigation revealed that the Share Group, which was operating phone banks for the Teamsters, had overbilled the union more than $26,000 but was allowed to keep the money. Last week the fbi attempted to question the couple, but their attorney, William Codinha, said they were "out of town." He contends that Arnold made the contributions without Ansara's knowledge because...
Unlike federal campaign laws, however, which are fuzzy in their application and relatively toothless in their remedies, the Teamster election rules are quite clear: evidence of illegal contributions that might have been decisive in an election requires a rerun. Although Carey beat Hoffa by a razor-thin margin and the Arnold contributions may have financed a crucial last-minute mailing, labor experts suspect that the government, which spent as much as $30 million on the closely monitored election, may be reluctant to act on these charges. Which would leave the Teamsters, along with the American taxpayers, mired in business...
...certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime pay and compensatory time off for long hours. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had opened the meeting with a call...