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...Longtime Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa was still missing; foul play was suspected. The feds were investigating the union's pension funds for financial, uh, irregularities (like loans to mobsters, unsecured loans to friends, etc.). The biggest labor union in the United States. Bang...
Brill went at the Teamsters in the manner of a magazine writer. The book consists of nine profiles of Teamsters and associates--looking at the institution through the people in it. The characters include Fitzsimmons, Tony Provenzano (the New Jersey Teamster/mobster who Brill says orchestrated Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance), Jimmy Hoffa Jr. (a Detroit labor lawyer outsider, waiting for his father to float to the top), Ron Carey (a rare, honest Teamster local president in New York), Allen Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss...
...complicating element is the fact that the Teamsters are beleaguered by charges of maladministration of the funds. Though it is not known whether Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons is tied to any of these allegations, he must negotiate in the knowledge that federal officials are pondering just how zealously to prosecute criminal charges of malfeasance. On the other hand, Fitzsimmons is on record as saying that he will not accept anything less than the contract (nearly 40% over three years) that the coal miners won last winter, a settlement that Administration officials, who have shown little facility for handling labor disputes...
...this program establishes some credibility on the price side and adjustments are made on the wage standard, I am sure that the Teamster members will do their share to assist in resolving this difficult problem," Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons said yesterday...
...first step in establishing alternative uses of pension funds may be decided in a Supreme Court ruling this year on the Daniels case. A retired Teamster named John Daniels unexpectedly found himself bereft of pension benefits because of a three-and-a-half month layoff in his 20 years employment. Daniels sued, maintaining that the pension was an investment, and that he had been defrauded. District and circuit courts have upheld Daniels against theTeamsters. The Labor Department lined up the the Teamsters, while the securities and Exchange Commission sided with Daniels. If the Supreme Court rules that, indeed, a pension...