Word: warehousemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every ten American union members is a dues-paying member of Frank Fitzsimmons' union. Teamsters are cafeteria workers at Penn State, sanitationmen in New York City,...zookeepers in San Diego,...cartoonists in Hollywood,...McDonald's hamburger-bun makers in Tennessee,...brewers in Milwaukee,...and 450,000 truckers and warehousemen around the country who drive and store everything from diapers to coffins...
SEATTLE, WASH--Harry Bridges, the renowned left-wing labor leader, yesterday retired from the presidency of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union after 43 years in the post...
...currently involved in testing teachers, foreign service officers, CIA candidates, gynecologists, hospital finance managers, podiatrists, furniture warehousemen, stock brokers, architects and Peace Corps volunteers, to mention just a few. Not long ago ETS developed a "racially unbiased" test for people applying to the Philadelphia police force. The ever-broadening sphere of ETS influence, and the importance of ETS test scores in determining who does what in this country, is mind-boggling...
...first nationwide strike might have been a bruising bout. What the economy, still recovering from recession, least needed was a protracted idling of the big rigs. The worst was not to be. Within two days after the strike began, many of the Teamsters' 440,000 truckers and warehousemen were free to go back to work. That was because their employers had broken ranks with Trucking Employers Inc., the biggest of the truck owners' associations, and signed separate or interim contracts with the Teamsters, giving the union members wage and benefit increases of nearly 30% over three years. Those...
...that Hoffa will somehow turn up alive, well and able to run in opposition. Failing that, Fitzsimmons could still face substantial opposition from dissatisfied Teamsters who do not like his leadership style. No strong opponent has surfaced so far. Last week, at a Boston convention of Teamsters representing warehousemen, Fitzsimmons moved through crowds of overfed men in white shoes who sported FITZ IN '76 buttons. Whatever the result of the election, or the Hoffa case, the outlook for the Teamsters seems to be more members, fatter contracts, richer pension funds -and more corruption...