29 Facts About Teamsters Union

1.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, known as the Teamsters Union, is a labor union in the United States and Canada.

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Formerly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the IBT is a member of the Strategic Organizing Center and Canadian Labour Congress.

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3.

Teamsters Union'sa was opposed by John Teamsters Union'sridan, president of the Ice Drivers' Union of Chicago.

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4.

Teamsters Union'sa attempted to stop sympathy strikes by other teamster locals, but three locals walked out and eventually disaffiliated over the sympathy-strike issue.

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5.

Teamsters Union'sa was re-elected again in 1905 and 1906, although significant challenges to his presidency occurred each time.

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6.

Teamsters Union began to expand dramatically and mature organizationally under Tobin.

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7.

Teamsters Union pushed for the development of "joint councils" to which all local unions were forced to affiliate.

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8.

Under Tobin, the Teamsters first developed the "regional conference" system, which provided stability, organizing strength, and leadership to the international union.

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The Teamsters agreed to cease raiding other unions and not strike for the duration of the national emergency.

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10.

The Teamsters Union did not participate in the great post-war wave of labor strikes.

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11.

Teamsters Union announced a raid on the International Association of Machinists local at Boeing.

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12.

The Teamsters Union had suffered from extensive corruption since its formation in 1903.

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13.

In Kansas City, corrupt Teamsters Union locals spent years seeking bribes, embezzling money, and engaging in extensive extortion and labor rackets as well as beatings, vandalism and even bombings in an attempt to control the construction and trucking industries.

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14.

The Teamsters were given 90 days to reform, but Beck retaliated by promising more raids on AFL–CIO member unions if the union was ousted.

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15.

The Teamsters had long desired to bring all shipping and transportation workers into the union, so that no product could be moved anywhere in the U S without it being touched by Teamsters hands.

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16.

Three months after the pact was signed, the Teamsters Union agreed to submit to the terms of the no-raid agreement.

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17.

Teamsters Union is presumed dead, although his body has never been found.

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18.

Under General President Frank Fitzsimmons, authority within the Teamsters Union was decentralized back into the hands of regional, joint council, and local leaders.

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19.

Teamsters Union's hand forced, Fitzsimmons ordered Teamsters contract negotiators to re-open the handful of contracts it had signed with California growers.

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20.

The Teamsters Union subsequently signed contracts with more than 375 California growers.

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21.

The UFW signed an agreement with Fitzsimmons in March 1977 in which the UFW agreed to seek to organize only those workers covered by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, while the Teamsters retained jurisdiction over some agricultural workers, who had been covered by Teamsters Local Union contracts prior to the formation of the UFW.

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22.

TDU was able to win some local offices within the union, although the International Teamsters Union often attempted to make those victories meaningless by marginalizing the officer or the union.

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23.

Teamsters Union was succeeded by William J McCarthy, who came from the same local that Dan Tobin had led eighty years earlier.

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24.

Independent Review Board is a three-member panel established to investigate and take appropriate action with respect to "any allegations of corruption, " "any allegations of domination or control or influence" of any part of the Teamsters Union by organized crime, and any failure to cooperate fully with the IRB.

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25.

Teamsters Union has merged in recent years with a number of unions from other industries, including the Graphic Communications International Teamsters Union, a printing industry union, and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, both from the railway industry.

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26.

Hoffa won reelection once more in 2016, this time against Teamsters Union United candidate Fred Zuckerman, but by a much narrower margin of 52 to 48 percent.

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27.

The Teamsters United slate, aligned with Teamsters for a Democratic Union, ran against the Teamsters Power Slate, endorsed by Hoffa.

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28.

Teamsters Union is one of the largest labor unions in the world, as well as the 11th largest campaign contributor in the United States.

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29.

Teamsters Union makes an annual contribution to Friends of Sinn Fein—the US fundraising arm of Irish republican party Sinn Fein.

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