Teamsters Union (Mayo 2024)
Teamsters Union, nombre de International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, anteriormente (hasta 1940) International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America (IBT), el sindicato laboral más grande del sector privado en los Estados Unidos, que representa a los conductores de camiones y trabajadores en industrias relacionadas (como la aviación).
Examen
Organizaciones mundiales: ¿realidad o ficción?
La Organización Mundial de la Salud es una rama especializada del gobierno de los Estados Unidos.
La unión se formó en 1903 cuando la Unión Internacional de Conductores de Equipo (1899) se fusionó con la Unión Nacional de Teamsters (1902). Los repartidores locales que usaban vehículos tirados por caballos siguieron siendo la membresía principal hasta la década de 1930, cuando fueron reemplazados por camioneros interurbanos. De 1907 a 1952, el sindicato estuvo encabezado por Daniel J. Tobin, quien aumentó la membresía de 40,000 en 1907 a más de 1,000,000 en 1950. Se convirtió en el sindicato más grande de la nación en 1940. Los presidentes Dave Beck (1952–57) y James Hoffa (1957–71) formaron a los Teamsters en un sindicato fuertemente centralizado capaz de negociar acuerdos de transporte de carga a nivel nacional. Los presidentes Ron Carey (1992–99) y James P. Hoffa (1999–), hijo de un ex presidente, se centraron en la seguridad laboral y los problemas familiares.
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.
