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Indifference & Fear. For the most part, rank-and-file Teamsters across the nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and...
Founded and operated for a seemingly infinite variety of reasons, ranging from royal good fellowship, to mutual financial benefit (low-cost insurance), to generously financed works of public good will,† the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the...
Latching onto the 1,000 employees of Roto-Broil Corp. (electric broilers), one crooked local was so helpful as to allow the management (1956 gross: $10 million) to keep about $23,000 in check-off dues. In most other instances Dio-controlled "unions" were nothing beyond fronts for extortion thugs...
Much credit for removing the ugliest stain on the labor record was due the Teamsters themselves. The proof by McClellan & Co. that Beck had been using their dues payments like a business tycoon spurred Dave-must-go movements in half a dozen key Teamster locals before Beck finally took the...
The size of the Local's coffers and the salaries of its officers and staff are a bone of contention for many prospective members. HUERA dues are only 25 cents per month, while Local 254 charges its members $2.50 monthly. "We'd have to get a lot back from the...