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Teamsters

International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Founded	1903
Members	1,423,038 (2007)[1]
Country	United States and Canada
Affiliation	Change to Win Federation and Canadian Labour Congress
Key people	James P. Hoffa, General President
Office location	Washington, D.C.
Website	www.teamsters.org

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors. The union had approximately 1.4 million members in 2007.^[1] Formerly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the IBT is a member of the Change to Win Federation and Canadian Labour Congress.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early history 1.2 Organizing and growth during the Great Depression 1.3 World War II and the post-war period 2 Part 2 and part 3 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

History

Early history

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) had helped form local unions of teamsters since 1887. In November 1898, the AFL organized the Team Drivers' International Union (TDIU).^[2][3] In 1901, a group of Teamsters in Chicago, Illinois, broke from the TDIU and formed the Teamsters National Union.^[2] The new union permitted only employees, teamster helpers, and owner-operators owning only a single team to join, unlike the TDIU (which permitted large employers to be members), and was more aggressive than the TDIU in advocating higher wages and shorter hours.^[2] Claiming more than 28,000 members in 47 locals, its president, Albert Young, applied for membership in the AFL. The AFL asked the TDIU to merge with Young's union to form a new, AFL-affiliated union and the two groups did so in 1903, creating the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT).^[3] Cornelius Shea was elected the new union's first president.^[3][2] Shea's election was a tumultuous one. Shea effectively controlled the convention because the Chicago locals—representing nearly half the IBT's membership^[4]—were united in their support for his candidacy. Shea was opposed by John Sheridan, president of the Ice Drivers' Union of Chicago. Sheridan and George Innes, president of the TDIU, accused Shea of embezzlement in an attempt to prevent his election.^[5] Shea won election on August 8, 1903, by a vote of 605 to 480. Edward L. Turley of Chicago was elected secretary-treasurer and Albert Young general organizer.^[6][7]

The union, like most unions within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) at the time, was largely decentralized, with a number of local unions that governed themselves autonomously and tended to look only after their own interests in the geographical jurisdiction in which they operated.^[8][9][10] The Teamsters were vitally important to the labor movement, for a strike or sympathy strike by the Teamsters could paralyze the movement of goods throughout the city and bring a strike into nearly every neighborhood.^[4] It also meant that Teamsters leaders were able to demand bribes in order to avoid strikes, and control of a Teamsters local could bring organized crime significant revenues. During Shea's presidency, the entire Teamsters union was notoriously corrupt.^[11][12][13] Noted labor historian John R. Commons famously concluded that during this time, the Teamsters were less a union and more a criminal organization.^[14]

Several major strikes occupied the union in its first three years. In November 1903, Teamsters employed by the Chicago City Railway went out on strike. Shea attempted to stop sympathy strikes by other Teamster locals, but three locals walked out and eventually disaffiliated over the sympathy strike issue.^[15] A sympathy strike in support of 18,000 striking meat cutters in Chicago in July 1904 led to riots before the extensive use of strikebreakers led Shea to force his members back to work (leading to the collapse of the meat cutters' strike).^[16][17][11] In the midst of the strife in 1904, Shea was re-elected by acclamation on August 8, 1904, at the Teamsters convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[17] Under his leadership, the union had expanded to nearly 50,000 members in 821 locals in 300 cities, making the Teamsters one of the largest unions in the United States).^[11] In 1905, 10,000 Teamsters struck in support of locked out tailors at Montgomery Ward, and eventually more than 25,000 Teamsters were on the picket line.^[18][19][20] But when local newspapers discovered that Shea was living in a local brothel, kept a 19-year-old waitress as a mistress, and had spent the strike hosting parties, public support for the strike collapsed and the strike ended on August 1, 1905.^{[21][22][18][20]} Despite the revelations, Shea won re-election on August 12, 1905, by a vote of 129 to 121.^[23]

Shea was re-elected again in 1906 and 1907, although significant challenges to his presidency occurred each time.^[24] Shea's first trial on charges stemming from the 1905 Montgomery Ward strike ended in a mistrial.^[25] However, during the 1906 re-election Shea had promised that he would resign the presidency once his trial had ended.^[26] But he did not, and most union members withdrew their support for him.^[26] Daniel J. Tobin of Boston was elected Shea's successor by a vote of 104 to 94 in August 1907.^[27]

Organizing and growth during the Great Depression

Tobin was president of the Teamsters from 1907 to 1952. Although he faced opposition in his re-election races in 1908, 1909 and 1910, he never faced opposition again until his retirement in 1952.^[28]

The Teamsters began to expand dramatically and mature organizationally under Tobin. He pushed for the development of "joint councils" to which all local unions were forced to affiliate. Varying in geographical and industrial jurisdiction, the joint councils became important incubators for up-and-coming leadership and negotiating master agreements which covered all employers in a given industry. Tobin also actively discouraged strikes in order to bring discipline to the union and encourage employers to sign contracts, and founded and edited the union magazine, the International Teamster.^{[8][29][9][10][30]} Under Tobin, the Teamsters also first developed the "regional conference" system (developed by Dave Beck in Seattle), which provided stability, organizing strength, and leadership to the international union.^[9]

Tobin undertook long jurisdictional battles with many unions during this period. Fierce disputes occurred between the Teamsters and the Gasoline State Operators' National Council (an AFL federal union of gas station attendants), the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the Retail Clerks International Union, and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.^[9][31] The most significant disagreement, however, was with the United Brewery Workers over the right to represent beer wagon drivers. While the Teamsters lost this battle in 1913, when the AFL awarded jurisdiction to the Brewers, they won when the issue came before the AFL Executive Board again in 1933, when the Brewers were still recovering from their near-elimination during Prohibition.^{[32][28][9][33]} The raids and new member organizing in the 1930s led to significant membership increases. Teamster membership stood at just 82,000 in 1932. Tobin took advantage of the wave of pro-union sentiment engendered by the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and by 1935 union membership had nearly 65 percent to 135,000. By 1941, Tobin had a dues-paying membership of 530,000—making the Teamsters the fastest-growing labor union in the United States.^[9]

One of the most significant events in union history occurred in 1934. A group of radicals in Local 574 in Minneapolis—led by Farrell Dobbs, Carl Skoglund, and the Dunne brothers (Ray, Miles and Grant), all members of the Trotskyite Communist League of America)—began successfully organizing coal truck drivers in the winter of 1933.^[34] Tobin, an ardent anti-communist and anti-fascist,^[35] opposed their efforts and refused to support their 1933 strike.^[34] Local 574 struck again in 1934, leading to several riots over a nine-day period in May.^[34] When the employers' association reneged on the agreement, Local 574 resumed the strike, although it ended again after nine days when martial law was declared by Governor Floyd B. Olson.^[34] Although Local 574 won a contract recognizing the union and which broke the back of the anti-union Citizens Alliance in Minneapolis, Tobin expelled Local 574 from the Teamsters. Member outrage was extensive, and in August 1936 he was forced to recharter the local as 544.^{[31][9][34][36]} Within a year the newly formed Local 544 had organized 250,000 truckers in the Midwest and formed the Central Conference of Teamsters.^{[31][9][34][36]}

Extensive organizing also occurred in the West. Harry Bridges, radical leader of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), was leading "the march inland"—an attempt to organize warehouse workers away from shipping ports.^[9][37] Alarmed by Bridges' radical politics and worried that the ILA would encroach on Teamster jurisdictions, Dave Beck formed a large regional organization (the Western Conference of Teamsters) to engage in fierce organizing battles and membership raids against the ILA which led to the establishment of many new locals and the organization of tens of thousands of new members.^[9][38]

But corruption became even more widespread in the Teamsters during the Tobin administration. By 1941, the union was considered the most corrupt in the United States, and the most abusive towards its own members. Tobin vigorously defended the union against such accusations, but also instituted many constitutional and organizational changes and practices which made it easier for union officials to engage in criminal offenses.^[39]

World War II and the post-war period

By the beginning of World War II, the Teamsters was one of the most powerful unions in the country, and Teamster leaders influential in the corridors of power. Union membership had risen more than 390 percent between 1935 and 1941 to 530,000.^[9] In June 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed General President Dan Tobin to be the official White House liaison to organized labor, and later that year chair of the Labor Division of the Democratic National Committee.^[9][40] In 1942, President Roosevelt appointed Tobin special representative to the United Kingdom and charged him with investigating the state of the labor movement there.^[41] Tobin was considered three times for Secretary of Labor, and twice refused the post—in 1943 and 1947.^[42] On September 23, 1944, Roosevelt gave his famous "Fala speech" while campaigning in the 1944 presidential election. Because of Roosevelt's strong relationship with Tobin and the union's large membership, the President delivered his speech before the Teamster convention.^[9]

Nonetheless, Teamsters members were restive. Dissident members of the union accused the leadership of suppressing democracy in the union, a charge President Tobin angrily denied.^[43] Over the next year, Tobin cracked down on dissidents and trusteed several large locals led by his political opponents.^[44]

During World War II, The Teamsters strongly endorsed the American labor movement's no-strike pledge. The Teamsters agreed to cease raiding other unions and not strike for the duration of the national emergency. President Tobin even ordered Teamsters members to cross picket lines put up by other unions. Nevertheless, the national leadership sanctioned strikes by Midwestern truckers in August 1942, Southern truckers in October 1943, and brewery workers and milk delivery drivers in January 1945.^[30][45] The Teamsters did not, however, participate in the great post-war wave of labor strikes. In the two years following the cessation of hostilities, the Teamsters struck only three times: 10,000 truckers in New Jersey struck for two weeks; workers at United Parcel Service struck nationwide for three weeks; and workers at Railway Express Agency struck for almost a month.^[46]

Teamsters leaders strongly opposed enactment of the Taft-Hartley Act and repeatedly called for its repeal. President Tobin, however, was one of the first labor leaders to sign the non-communist affidavit required by the law.^[47]

The great wave of organizing which the union engaged in during the Great Depression and the war significantly boosted the political power of a number of regional Teamsters leaders, and the leadership of the union engaged in a number of power struggles in the post-war period. By 1949, the union's membership had topped one million.^[48] Dave Beck (elected an international vice-president in 1940) was increasingly influential in the international union, and Tobin attempted to check his growing power but failed.^[9] In 1946, Beck successfully overcame Tobin's opposition and won approval of an amendment to the union's constitution creating the post of executive vice-president. Beck then won the 1947 election to fill the position.^[29] Beck also successfully opposed in 1947 a Tobin-backed dues increase to fund new organizing.^[49] The following year, Beck was able to demand the ouster of the editor of International Teamster magazine and install his own man in the job.^[50]

In 1948, Beck allied with his long-time rival Jimmy Hoffa and effectively seized control of the union. He announced a raid on the International Association of Machinists local at Boeing. Although President Dan Tobin publicly repudiated Beck's actions, Beck had more than enough support from Hoffa and other members of the executive board to force Tobin to back down.^[51] Five months later, Beck won approval of a plan to dissolve the union's four divisions and replace them with 16 divisions organized around each of the major job categories in the union's membership.^[52] In 1951, Tom Hickey, reformist leader of the Teamsters in New York City, won election to the Teamsters executive board. Tobin needed Beck's support to prevent Hickey's election, and Beck refused to give it.^[53]

On September 4, 1952, Tobin announced he would step down as president of the Teamsters at the end of his term.^[54] At the union's 1952 convention, Beck was elected General President and pushed through a number of changes intended to make it harder for a challenger to build the necessary majority to unseat a president or reject his policies.^[55]

Part 2 and part 3

Continued in The influence of organized crime in the Teamsters (part 2) and Teamsters, part 3

Notes

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External links

• TeamsterNet - 10 Years of Teamsters Forums
• RoadDrivers.Org
• Teamsters
• Official history of the IBT
• Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
• Official site of the Independent Review Board
• Teamsters' involvement in the City Front Federation strike in San Francisco in 1901
• 1934 Minneapolis Stike Reprinted from Revolutionary History, Vol.2 No.1, Spring 1989. Marxist Internet Archive. Accessed April 3, 2004.
• Trotskyist Work in the Trade Unions, by Chris Knox
• Report on organized crime influence in the Teamsters and other unions
• TDU history

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