The 70-30 vote, a victory for Democrats and the Teamsters Union, overcame GOP delaying tactics.
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.
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.
The cockroaches and the laquered locks, though, have never had to face the adversary that is stomping on Twinkies: the Teamsters union.
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.
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.
Rather than negotiate in good faith, the Teamsters threatened this week to strike, and they claim 90 percent of its voting workforce has backed the idea.
On Monday, a court-created Independent Review Board expelled Carey from the Teamsters for life for bringing reproach on the union and failing in his fiduciary responsibilities.
Notes taken by former DNC Finance Director Richard Sullivan at meetings with Carey advisors outline discussions of a plan in which the Teamsters would help Democratic candidates.
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The Teamsters are assisting the efforts of the music scribes, who are among the few non-unionized workers in the business (with computer effects workers being another large group).
Hostess, unlike its chief competitors, is heavily unionized (83 percent of its work force), principally by the Teamsters and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
The Teamsters want to make sure that additional "sacrifices are not made in vain again due to mismanagement, " said Dennis Raymond, leader of Hostess's Teamsters workers, in a statement.
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Fox already has Bush's support for a proposal to allow Mexican long-haul trucks unlimited access to U.S. roads despite opposition from the Teamsters Union, which supported Bush's energy proposals.
He is doing well with the Teamsters (who favour drilling for oil in Alaska) and the half-a-million-member carpenters' union (who have doubled their contributions to Republican congressional candidates in 2002).
On August 22nd a federal official nullified last year's election of Ron Carey to the presidency of the Teamsters' union, which has just organised a successful strike against United Parcel Services.
Feldman and Wilson, who have been advising the Teamsters since last summer, also worked together on President Barack Obama's auto task force during the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler.
The Teamsters' strength grew because their industry was regulated.
Mr. Peruzzi, the Detroit driver and a member of the Teamsters, says he wants the unions to work with the company because he fears what will happen if there is a standoff.
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