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Jan 21, 2006 · Beginning in 1957 the McClellan Committee of the US Senate conducted a two-year smear attack on the Teamsters, using Hoffa as the central target. The Justice Department followed through with six felony indictments against Hoffa and other Teamster officials.
Then, in 1941, when John L. Lewis's brother Denny sought to organize Michigan teamsters for the CIO, a raid which the UAW declined to sup port, "Perrone, Angelo Meli, Frank Coppola, and other crime figures gave Hoffa the support he needed to drive the CIO raiders out of Detroit" (Moldea, p. 37).
May 26, 2024 · Under Hoffa‘s aggressive leadership, the Teamsters saw explosive growth and influence. Membership surged from under 1 million when he took office to over 2 million by 1970. Hoffa also secured generous contracts and benefits for workers.
May 14, 2024 · James Riddle Hoffa was the controversial president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union from 1957 to 1971. His leadership was marked by both his contentious wielding of his enormous power and his cult-like popularity — as well as his longstanding ties to the criminal underworld.
- James Burch
Early history. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) had helped form local unions of teamsters since 1887. In November 1898, the AFL organized the Team Drivers' International Union (TDIU). [3][4] In 1901, a group of teamsters in Chicago, Illinois, broke from the TDIU and formed the Teamsters National Union. [3]
Dobbs' socialism and trade union militancy made him the enemy of the trucking company bosses as well as the Teamsters bureaucracy. Furthermore, his revolutionary opposition to World War Two caused the Roosevelt administration to view him and his co-thinkers as an obstacle to American war aims.
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Strike leaders, led by organizer Farrell Dobbs, fanned out across the Midwest to organize over-the-road truckers. They eventually won union recognition in eleven states, making the Teamsters a truck drivers’ union and setting the stage for the eventual creation of the National Master Freight Agreement.
