اتحاد Teamsters

Teamsters Union ، بالاسم من جماعة الاخوة الدولية من Teamsters ، السائقين ، و Warehousemen ومساعدو أمريكا ، سابقا (حتى 1940) الاخوة الدولية Teamsters ، Chauffeurs ، Stablemen و Helpers of America (IBT) ، أكبر اتحاد عمال للقطاع الخاص في الولايات المتحدة ، تمثل سائقي الشاحنات والعاملين في الصناعات ذات الصلة (مثل الطيران).

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تم تشكيل النقابة في عام 1903 عندما اندمج الاتحاد الدولي لسائقي الفريق (1899) مع الاتحاد الوطني Teamsters (1902). ظل عمال التوصيل المحليون الذين يستخدمون المركبات التي تجرها الخيول الأعضاء الأساسيين حتى الثلاثينيات ، عندما حل محلهم سائقو الشاحنات بين المدن. من عام 1907 إلى عام 1952 ، ترأس النقابة دانييل جيه توبين ، الذي زاد عدد أعضائه من 40.000 في عام 1907 إلى أكثر من 1.000.000 بحلول عام 1950. وقد أصبح أكبر اتحاد في البلاد بحلول عام 1940. الرئيسان ديف بيك (1952-1957) وجيمس هوفا (1957-1971) شكل فريق Teamsters إلى اتحاد مركزي قوي قادر على التفاوض على اتفاقيات نقل البضائع على مستوى الدولة. ركز الرئيسان رون كاري (1992-1999) وجيمس ب. هوفا (1999–) ، نجل رئيس سابق ، على الأمن الوظيفي وقضايا الأسرة.

The union’s size, along with the threat of halting shipments of essential goods, gave the Teamsters great bargaining power. But the union’s magnitude also provided some officials with opportunities for violently pressuring small employers or profiting, in consort with organized crime, from the manipulation of union pension funds. In the wake of corruption disclosures implicating Teamster leadership, the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) expelled the union in 1957—after almost 60 years of membership in the AFL.

Between 1957 and 1988, three of the Teamsters’ presidents—Beck, the elder Hoffa, and Roy L. Williams—were convicted of various crimes and sentenced to prison terms. After his release from prison, Hoffa disappeared in 1975; many believe he was killed by members of organized crime. The Teamsters Union was readmitted to the AFL–CIO in 1987. In 1988 the Justice Department filed a civil racketeering suit against the union, but the suit was settled out of court in 1989. In 1992, given their first chance to directly elect their national leaders, members chose as president Carey, the candidate supported by the reformist group Teamsters for a Democratic Union. While Teamster representation of truck drivers declined with the growth of nonunion trucking companies in the 1980s, the union gained many new members through its efforts to organize workers in clerical, service, and technology occupations.

In 1997 the Teamsters galvanized media attention and public support when their strike against United Parcel Service (UPS) stopped the delivery of thousands of packages worldwide. The strike centred on the extensive use of part-time employees by UPS. In the agreement negotiated with UPS, the Teamsters won 10,000 new full-time jobs over the course of the five-year contract. In later years the Teamsters became increasingly dissatisfied with the AFL-CIO, especially its inability to increase union membership. In 2005 the Teamsters disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO and, with several other unions, helped establish the Change to Win coalition.