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...explain your violent antipathy to the police? "Well, officer, in 1973 the Teamster goons came...
...however, believes that the winery wanted the Teamsters to depose the Farm Workers. Johnson says the Teamsters were "hand-picked" by Gallo and that UFW organizers were harassed by Gallo guards. Gallo says the Teamsters were organizing in the valley already and that the company did not involve itself in the inter-union dispute. "We chased Teamster organizers off the property, too," Solomon says...
...June 25 the Teamsters sent a hand-delivered letter to Gallo stating that they had gotten the signatures of a majority of the field workers and were now representing them. Gallo told the UFW of the Teamster claim the next day and said they were going to schedule a meeting to investigate. The next morning the UFW called a strike...
...other hand, electrical workers late last month settled quietly with General Electric on a Teamster-like pact-which is regarded by Ford Administration economists as being barely within the limits of inflationary tolerance. One of four unions bargaining with Westinghouse struck last week, but chances are strong that the Westinghouse workers will soon settle for a pact close to GE's. And economists note with relief that dozens of contracts reached so far in the construction industry average first year wage-and-benefit boosts of only...
Shaky Ventures. The IRS got involved because it is empowered to cancel a pension fund's tax exemption if trustees have misused the fund's assets to the detriment of pensioners. Over the years, the Teamsters' fund has been accused constantly of doing exactly that. Since its inception in 1955, the fund has been notorious for making large loans to shaky business ventures, many of them controlled by Mafia chieftains who are cozy with Teamster bosses. Investigators from time to time have turned up instances of kickbacks to union officials or underworld figures for arranging loans...