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Transportation and the Teamsters Union
Title: Transportation and the Teamsters Union
Category: History
Details: Words: 616 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Transportation and the Teamsters Union
Transportation industries throughout the world have played and always will play a major role in society. One of the major union movements of the twentieth century within the transportation industry here in the United States is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), founded in Niagara Falls, New York in 1903. Prior to the founding of the IBT, the lives of the teamsters were meager at best. There was not much work to be found, and the …showed first 75 words of 616 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 616 total…with UPS caused the union to redouble its efforts in the labor movement. James P. Hoffa, Jimmy Hoffa's son, was elected president of the union in a landslide victory. He then with the help of the supervision of the Justice Department rewrote the teamster's code of ethics and all but eradicated the mafia presence and influence within the IBT. Returning the IBT to a newfound glory and eliminating the risk of bankruptcy within the union.
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