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History - Teamsters Local 162  Aug 10, 2015 ... The following represents a brief history of Teamsters Local 162, Joint .... The first Local 182 contract called for 26 ten-hour workdays per ... of Oregon stood at approximately 1,500, and nationwide membership neared the 80,000 mark. ... came in to Astoria and turned a wheel unless he joined the union.
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10 - Freight at Teamsters for a Democratic Union  The Teamsters union represents about 26,000 YRC workers. ... officials since the trucking firm's own contract proposal was overwhelmingly voted down last ... Chief executive James Welch had emphasized that all employees jobs, not just those of .... of the National Master Freight Agreement, first signed on this date in 1964.
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Teamster History Visual Timeline | Teamsters  ... Union. He continued in a leadership role with the formation of the International Brotherhood of ... 1902: Albert Young was President of the Teamsters National Union. ... 1912: Varied toll rates reflect the growing changes in transportation. .... National employees in Detroit were pleased with their first contract signed in 1968.
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The People vs. Jimmy Hoffa, Part 2 | Nashville Scene  Apr 4, 2002 ... The charges involved a Nashville trucking firm called Test Fleet ... Hearing voices in his head, he checked into the downtown YMCA in a tan trench ..... Teamsters president Ewing King in the upcoming local union election. .... It was the first nationwide contract with the trucking industry in U.S. labor history.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Wikipedia  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and .... But he did not, and most union members withdrew their support for him. ... One of the most significant events in union history occurred in 1934. .... Beck was the first Teamster president to negotiate a nationwide master contract and a...
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Wikipedia  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and ... Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the IBT is a member of ..... Action, a new national trade union center which competed with the AFL-CIO. ..... Jump up ^ Changes to the union constitution included expanding the...
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History - About FedEx  In 1965, Yale University undergraduate Frederick W. Smith wrote a term ... Federal Express officially began operations on April 17, 1973, with 389 team members. ... off from Memphis and delivered 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, ... making American business history as the first company to reach that financial...
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Rank and File Teamsters Fight for Labor's Future | Dollars & Sense  The Teamsters will conduct a national election for president this fall. ... son of the former president, and his principal opponent, reformer Tom Leedham, a lot ... is that with the election of Ron Carey in 1991 it seemed as if the huge union so long ... The fall of Carey led directly to the breakup of the reform coalition he had led.
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John L Lewis Autograph Union Labor Leader President Mine ... - eBay  ... Union Labor Leader President Mine worker The Labor Baron in Collectibles, ... John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers President plaque located in Lucas, Iowa ... On November 1, 1919, he called the first major coal union strike, as 400,000...
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United Farm Workers of America facts, information, pictures ...  Founded: 1962 as National Farm Workers Association .... By 1962 he was eager to start a farmworkers union under the CSO rubric that ... in savings, moved his wife and eight children to Delano, California, in 1962 to ... In 1966 NFWA merged with AWOC, to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC).
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters - Wikipedia  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and ... Formerly known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, .... One of the most significant events in union history occurred in 1934. ..... but Hoffa refused and the formal expulsion occurred on December 6, 1957.
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William McCarthy, 79, Former Head of Teamsters - The New York ...  Nov 21, 1998 ... William J McCarthy, who served term as national president of International Brotherhood of Teamsters when union was fighting Federal...
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Ford's assembly line starts rolling - Dec 01, 1913 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an ... Ford's Model T, introduced in 1908, was simple, sturdy and relatively ... Ford installed moving lines for bits and pieces of the manufacturing process: For ... The Epic Road Trip That Inspired the Interstate Highway System.
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UAW President's Office - Walter P. Reuther Library - Wayne State ...  In 1952 Reuther succeeded Philip Murray as president of the CIO, and he led in efforts to merge the CIO and the AFL, which came about in December of. 1955. He then .... by Anthony Carew and The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit by Nelson.
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A review of a wonderful new book--- The Package King: A Rank and ...  Sep 28, 2016 ... Yes, they are in a union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), once ... Casey would go on to be the president when the company became UPS in 1919. ... The first six months of 1946 marked 'the most concentrated period of .... In 1991 Teamster reformer Ron Carey was elected president of the...
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Owen Bieber Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Owen Bieber (born 1929), president from 1983 to 1995 of the third-largest labor ... United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of Americais a ... Bieber led more than one million union members, most of whom work in the ... Bieber also negotiated the first labor contracts for GM's innovative Saturn...
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Poland  We've Caught God by the Arm. - A Force More Powerful  Aug 14, 1980 ... At its first national congress in the fall of 1981, an Action Program ... Later that year, Walesa was officially elected Solidarity Chairman at ... Walesa, now head of the revived Solidarity labor union, began a series of meetings with world leaders. ... with vacation pay from the Central Council of Trade Unions. 8.
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7 Famous Presidential Pardons - History Lists - History (history.com)  Jul 23, 2013 ... Eugene V. Debs (1921) ... While Harding commuted Debs' prison sentence to time served, he also considered the ... of the Teamster Union, Hoffa was convicted in two separate trials that saw him sentenced to eight ... also involved a backroom deal that the union would support Nixon's reelection campaign.
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California - UFW: The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers ...  March 31, 1962--On his birthday, Cesar Chavez resigns from the Community ... Farm Workers and the union affiliates with the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation. ... 10-24, 1970--Chavez is jailed in Salinas, Calif. for refusing to obey a court ... In 1977, the Teamsters union signs an historic "jurisdictional" agreement with...
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SMART History - Smart Union  Combined, these unions hold over 200 years of history and tradition which continue today. ... 1868 UTU predecessor, Order of Railroad Conductors and Brakemen ... of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) established as Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen ... 1933 Dark economic times hit the sheet metal workers as publication of the...
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Corporate History | Nationwide.com  The company starts insuring motorists in metropolitan areas and, through the purchase of ... 20 additional states, the company changed its name to Nationwide Insurance. ... With a ground breaking in 1997, the Nationwide Arena opens providing a home to a National Hockey League franchise, the Columbus Blue Jackets.