Teamster History – As Told by those Who Made it Happen

The IBT has launched the Teamster History Project, which includes 27 unedited interviews with Teamsters who made it happen. It covers the years 1975-1999.  Those interviewed include several TDU leaders, participants in the Carey administration, James Hoffa, along with two Hoffa lieutenants who were expelled from the union for corruption and self-dealing.

The consent order, the first one-member-one-vote election, the 1997 UPS strike…it’s all discussed by the participants. Even the two leaders of the “BLAST” goon squad are interviewed.

This is the real deal: it is being conducted independently from the IBT, and housed at George Washington University.

Watch the interviews at teamsterhistory.org

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