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Instead of interviewing dissident Teamsters in Chicago, he chose to list the Italianate names of many Teamster leaders and their a/k/a nicknames, and wondered aloud if Ron Carey had one. The names were from a federal indictment which never went to trial. The court-supervised and directed election which resulted in Carey’s win was part of the out-of-court settlement by which the Teamsters avoided yet another racketeering trial. So, the indictment which Miner wrote about was old news.
Here was the biggest domestic union story in a decade, and to my knowledge the local press never really localized the Carey victory. Carey headed up a big UPS Local in the East, and UPS is a large Teamster employer in Chicago. The real story in the Teamster victory is how the 10,000 member Teamsters for a Democratic Union, which worked for Carey, was able to win out in a 1.5 million-person union. Also why did only 30 percent of the voters eligible actually cast ballots?
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