Teamster ballots will be counted this week. As General President Fred Zuckerman will build union power the same way Teamsters United built its campaign: by informing, uniting and mobilizing members. Hoffa-Hall want Teamsters in the dark and toeing the line. That’s why our union is weak and voter turnout is low—and that’s why Hoffa-Hall have to go. 

Corruption investigators noted Ken Hall’s “unusual tolerance” for repeated embezzlement by the Teamsters Political Director Nicole Brener-Schmitz. Now she faces corruption charges and Ken Hall faces questions about why he let it happen. 

In an escalation of the charges against Ken Hall for obstructing investigations into corruption, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara has filed court papers denouncing the Hoffa-Hall administration’s actions as “unprecedented and dangerous.”

[Re-posted from Bloomberg BNA]

The secretary-treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters intentionally withheld documents from officials who are working to root out corruption in the union, an investigator said.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Less than two weeks before the vote count in the national Teamsters Union election, a court-approved anti-corruption officer has charged the number two Teamster official with obstructing corruption investigations by hiding and destroying thousands of union documents and emails.

[Re-posted from Teamsters United]

Court-approved anti-corruption officials have charged Ken Hall with obstructing corruption investigations by hiding and destroying thousands of union documents and emails. How and why Ken Hall obstructed corruption investigators.

[Re-posted from In These Times]

The struggle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House is crowding out much of the other news of the day, including the battle for the presidency of the 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Re-posted from Teamsters United: Hoffa running mate Ken Hall faces expulsion from the union for obstructing investigations into corruption, embezzlement, employer gifts, and payoffs.

By Ginger Adams Otis, New York Daily News

A part-time UPS worker from Brooklyn is hoping to send his Teamsters union leadership a message on Nov. 15: “You’re out!”

Trinidadian-born Dave Loobie, 40, is the first part-time worker to ever run for a union position at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — one of the largest and most well-known labor organizations in the world.

With the future of the Teamsters Union at stake, the International Union election outcome comes down to this: turnout.  If Teamsters United volunteers can boost turnout, Fred Zuckerman will be the General President, and our union will be on the road to recovery.