Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain your violent antipathy to the police? "Well, officer, in 1973 the Teamster goons came...
...other hand, electrical workers late last month settled quietly with General Electric on a Teamster-like pact-which is regarded by Ford Administration economists as being barely within the limits of inflationary tolerance. One of four unions bargaining with Westinghouse struck last week, but chances are strong that the Westinghouse workers will soon settle for a pact close to GE's. And economists note with relief that dozens of contracts reached so far in the construction industry average first year wage-and-benefit boosts of only...
Shaky Ventures. The IRS got involved because it is empowered to cancel a pension fund's tax exemption if trustees have misused the fund's assets to the detriment of pensioners. Over the years, the Teamsters' fund has been accused constantly of doing exactly that. Since its inception in 1955, the fund has been notorious for making large loans to shaky business ventures, many of them controlled by Mafia chieftains who are cozy with Teamster bosses. Investigators from time to time have turned up instances of kickbacks to union officials or underworld figures for arranging loans...
Marxists in various corners of the globe−and possibly even some people in the U.S.−who think of the American workingman as downtrodden, etc., should have taken a look at Las Vegas last week. Even though the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is operating in the red and is raising dues for its 2.2 million members by at least 25% (to a minimum of $10 a month), the Teamsters held their 21st international convention last week far from any conceivable barricades, amid the gaudy luxuries of Las Vegas. No pikers even in hard times, the bosses pushed through...
PENSION-FUND POWER. Unlike their colleagues in unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which prohibits salaried officials from being paid for managing pension funds, Teamster bosses have turned these funds into another source of bounty. For managing the fund at Local 182 in Utica, N.Y., for example, Teamster Boss Rocco dePerno drew nearly $20,000 in 1974, over and above his regular salary of $46,000 and the $30,890 he got as a general organizer. Even non-Teamsters share the pension riches. In 1974 the administrator of the Ohio Drivers' Welfare Fund, Dayton Attorney Robert Knee...