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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...
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...
Press accounts of election results in the fields, however, show the Teamsters and the UFW in a near draw among those workers--a sizable majority--who favor union representation. The UFW leadership claims its share of the vote has been reduced by Teamster and grower intimidation, and by the apparent reluctance of state officials to safeguard workers' rights and reject invalid Teamster ballots...
After meeting with Beame, two labor leaders threatened a general strike, which would shut down most public services, paralyze transportation, further diminish investors' confidence and seriously disrupt the city's economy. Said local Teamster President Barry Feinstein: "We have given our blood. The unions are bleeding to death...
...against Fitzsimmons includes funneling union benefit funds to the Mafia, and "Fitz's" conspiracy with John Dean and Charles Colson to attach restrictions on union activities to his parole. In the epilogue, Oscar Fraley, Hoffa's transcriber (I don't believe ghostwriter), quotes Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, the ex-Teamster official and Mafia member: "Jimmy was...is...a friend...