It ain’t easy out there. Employers are demanding givebacks and coming after our contracts, pensions and healthcare.

Hoffa-Hall running mate John Coli has been indicted and charged with taking a $100,000 payoff from a Teamster employer. Now, corruption investigators are reportedly demanding the emails of Hoffa’s top assistant and former campaign manager.

James Hoffa has done it again. Today, Hoffa rubber-stamped another whitewash of the corruption charges against Willie Smith for accepting $6,000 worth of gifts from a Teamster employer. The case will now go to the Independent Review Officer (IRO), Judge Barbara Jones. 

Hoffa's man in Chicago, John Coli was hit with a federal indictment today, charged with taking payoffs of $100,000 from a Chicago employer and using the power of the Teamsters Union to line his own millionaire pockets.

Chicago Teamster power broker John Coli, is on the way out. Dogged by federal corruption investigators, Coli will resign all of his Teamster posts on August 1, and turn the “family business” over to his sons.

Federal embezzlement charges have been brought against the former Local 50 president Scott Alexander and his wife Nancy – the former Local 50 office administrator. 

A Hoffa-appointed panel cleared Willie Smith of any wrongdoing after he was charged with racketeering and taking an illegal employer gift. But Judge Barbara Jones has overruled the Hoffa whitewash. 

The Hoffa administration has pulled the plug on Teamster organizing among thousands of Florida public sector corrections officers by revoking the charter of Teamster Local 2011.  

A Hoffa-appointed panel has found Hoffa’s Executive Assistant Willie Smith not guilty after Smith was caught taking Playboy Super Bowl Party tickets from Teamster employer Southern Wine & Spirits. Their miscarriage of justice will now go before Judge Barbara Jones for review. (Reprinted from Teamsters United)