2,000 TEAMSTERS GATHER FOR MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA.Byline: Associated Press A power struggle for the heart, soul and future of the nation's largest labor union labor union: see union, labor. reaches a new arena this week as 2,000 Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor delegates gather for their convention. Along with regular union business, the representatives of 1.4 million rank-and-file members from across the United States and Canada will be drawn into the presidential fight between incumbent Ron Carey and James P. Hoffa For other uses, see Hoffa (disambiguation). James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941), is the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the only son of Jimmy Hoffa, who was also a president of the Teamsters, and his wife, Josephine Poszywak. , whose father once dominated the union even while serving a prison term. ``That should be very interesting,'' said Dan Kruger, a professor of labor education at Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . The convention that opens today will make nominations for the union's December general election - with Carey and Hoffa the expected headliners - and decide on proposed changes to the union's constitution. |
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