Hoffa Appointment Means No Women on GEB
March 18, 2009: President Hoffa has named Brad Slawson, Sr. to replace the only woman on our union’s top leadership.
Cheryl Johnson, the lone woman on the Teamster General Executive Board, is retiring and has resigned as a Central Region Vice President. Hoffa has appointed Slawson, the principal officer of Minneapolis Local 120, to replace her.
The General Executive Board is the highest leadership body in our union. It has 26 members: 25 white men and one African American man.
Ferline Buie, the head of Local 922, serves as an International Union Trustee, but she has no vote and is not a member of the General Executive Board.
Of 1.4 million Teamsters, could Hoffa not find a single woman to name to the leadership to represent women Teamsters?
Slawson, Sr. will be the second member of Minnesota Local 120 on the Board. The other is Secretary-Treasurer Tom Keegel.
TDU believes that our union leadership should reflect the membership and that a strong union involves everyone.
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Out of all the woman that Hoffa allowed to be disciminated,sexually assaulted/harassed, raped,even assaulted in the workplace by other union members or management what made anyone think that he has any respect for women or people of color. Hoffa feels that if he put on black male in a local or on the executive board and a couple of light skinned blacks as job stewards, and he also puts alot of people of color on the front of the Teamster Magazines for cover so that he does not have to worry about being sued for discrimination.
Hoffa is an attorney and a smart yet stupid one at that. Every woman and person of color can see right through him. We deserves respect and to be treated equal. Hoffa does not foot the bill as far as people of color go. He too is fake. I seen it and I see it.