He wowed Teamsters Local 238 at an evening chili feed in Cedar Rapids last week.
The 70-30 vote, a victory for Democrats and the Teamsters Union, overcame GOP delaying tactics.
His chair Wilma Liebman is a former Teamsters attorney serving her third term on the board.
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The conversion of part-time into full-time jobs is a key demand of the Teamsters.
As they struggle to maintain momentum, the Teamsters find themselves in need of credible leadership.
His company is heavily organized--20, 000 of its 27, 000 employees belong to the Teamsters or other unions.
Staley can't anticipate much relief from current contract talks between the Teamsters and big trucking companies.
Tales of meddling Teamsters, skeptical store owners and late-paying customers failed to deter Herzog, 48, a former art teacher.
Or the Teamsters not allowing Hostess to ship Ho Hos, Wonderbread and Twinkies in the same truck.
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The Teamsters and United Auto Workers stood too powerful, creating wage inflation approaching double-digit percentage annual leaps.
While the Teamsters still has not issued an endorsement, the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers previously endorsed Gore.
Next year's version of those ads will no doubt be spiced up with references to the Teamsters.
Unite Here, a union representing 450, 000 members, has waged an unsuccessful four-year campaign with the Teamsters to organize Cintas workers.
But Democrats, backed by powerful labor unions like the Teamsters, succeeded in passing the measure in the Senate.
The Teamsters' illicit associations sent a string of leaders to prison, notably the elder Hoffa in the 1960s.
Now Mr Carey's fall may deprive Mr Sweeney of the Teamsters' support, in turn weakening his clout in Washington.
Tuesday, House Republicans hosted a news conference with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in support of the energy bill.
Kantor has denied knowing about any pressure to link Diamond-Walnut's prospects overseas to its efforts to end a Teamsters strike.
The cockroaches and the laquered locks, though, have never had to face the adversary that is stomping on Twinkies: the Teamsters union.
He worked with Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa to modernize REA's labor contracts.
Republican lawmakers questioned whether there had been any quid pro quo for Teamsters campaign donations and government help mediating a labor dispute.
In 1964, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
The UAW, along with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, had held out on endorsing a candidate because of Gore's record on trade issues.
He had not realised, it seems, that the pension fund of the Teamsters' union, which had financed his purchase, was controlled by the Mafia.
"Trying to keep it from happening would have been like the Teamsters in the early 1900s trying to stop the combustion engine, " Lavin says.
It's been decades since the Steelworkers Union had to start branching out in order to find new members, and the Teamsters have been very innovative.
One key factor that could determine the damage caused by the strike is whether members of a powerful Hollywood Teamsters local honor the picket lines.
Direct government supervision of the Teamsters dates back to 1989, when the union settled a racketeering lawsuit over the union's alleged ties to organized crime.
Two months before, competitor Consolidated Freightways (otc: CFWEQ - news - people ) filed for bankruptcy and 15, 000 Teamsters lost their jobs.
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