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...matter of department policy and was prevented by "bureaucratic infighting and naivete" from working with the Justice Department to build criminal cases. Most incredibly, the task force was ordered by Labor higher-ups not to conduct "third party" inquiries-that is, to disregard officially the unsavory recipients of Teamster loans...
...Paff, a leading Teamster dissident, is not impressed. Said he: "The Labor Department has consistently bungled. We're worried it's going to be even worse under [Secretary Raymond] Donovan...
...presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters may well be the most powerful union post in the U.S., but it has its hazards. Two of the last three Teamster bosses, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, were sent to prison on corruption charges. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. Says Jackie Presser, a Teamster vice president: "That chair isn't a throne, it's an electric chair." His point...
...that has never kept an eager group of Teamster leaders from coveting the office. For one thing, the power, pay and perks are the best in the entire labor movement. And if the latest in a long series of congressional reports of the Teamsters is correct, the cash skimmed illegally off the tables of Las Vegas casinos can also sweeten a Teamster president...
Even if they did, the union's highly authoritarian procedures stifle dissent effectively. Still, some 30 reformist delegates, members of a group called Teamsters for a Democratic Union, braved unrelenting hostility from their fellow delegates. They nominated a candidate for president, Peter Camarata, a Detroit dockworker. They proposed the formation of an independent ethics committee, a limitation on the salaries of the top Teamster officials, and re-election of those officials by the entire membership, not merely convention delegates...