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...Calif.: "I tried to look at it objectively, but he was trying to appeal to my emotions. He was saying, 'Here I am a broken man, and I didn't realize I was doing this.' I didn't believe that." Added L.B. Day, an Oregon Teamster official: "I don't feel he has any remorse for what...
Chavez aides claim that the Teamsters feared they would lose a jurisdictional dispute now pending before the California agricultural labor relations board and thus have to surrender 50,000 workers to Chavez involuntarily. But the real reason for the Teamsters' cave-in seems to be public relations: the scandal-scarred Teamsters are under heavy attack. An investigation of the union's Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, often accused of funneling money to the Mafia, is still under way at the U.S. Department of Labor. This week, Federal officials will announce a plan forcing all Teamster...
...Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet is a labor leader who apparently made one enemy too many: the Mafia. Last week, with a chilling sense of déjà vu, the FBI and Nevada authorities were wondering if they would ever find a trace...
...when a number of the UFW grape contracts expired, growers signed with the Teamsters, denying the workers any participation in the choice of union representation. Contracts with the Teamsters brought back the notorious labor contractor system, thus doing away with job security, and elminated pesticide controls, medical benefits, and union democracy. When Gallo ignored its workers' wishes and signed with the Teamsters, the workers went out on strike. Gallo had them replaced by strikebreakers and illegal aliens, but even the strikebreakers went out on strike, along with thousands of other workers from other ranches. They were met with intimidation, mass...
...boycott a company that is legally restrained from any action? "We are boycotting unfair Teamster practices. Gallo can determine how much they will harass us with goons, and besides, you can't just turn a boycott on and off," Johnson says...