When Teamster members won the right to elect our International Union leaders, Teamster power brokers chose Hoffa, a lawyer with the most famous name in labor as their front man and celebrity candidate. Two decades later, Hoffa is still beholden to that devil's pact. He will never act against corruption when it implicates one of the power brokers that keep him in office. And that's why Hoffa can never kick the corruption habit.
Bob McNattin, a longtime Teamster activist and TDU member from Minnesota, who played a leadership role in the successful effort to save the Central States pension, died Sept. 18 in Falcon Heights, MN, a Twin Cities suburb. He was 84.
Bob was a tireless union activist and an invaluable leader of the Teamster pension protection movement.
Whenever a strike is on the table, Corporate America reaches for the same PR playbook. They tell the public how union members are overpaid and a strike would devastate the economy. We can beat these tactics. Here’s how.
