Košarkaški savez Srbije (Svibanj 2024)
Teamsters Union, nadimak International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, nekada (do 1940. godine) International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America (IBT), najveći sindikat privatnog sektora u Sjedinjenim Državama, predstavljajući vozače kamiona i radnike u srodnim industrijama (poput zrakoplovstva).
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Sindikat je osnovan 1903. kada se Međunarodni savez Team Drivers (1899) spojio s Teamsters National Union (1902). Lokalni dostavljači koji su koristili konjanička vozila ostali su osnovno članstvo do 1930-ih, kada su ih istjerali vozači međugradskih kamiona. Od 1907. do 1952. godine savez je vodio Daniel J. Tobin, koji je povećao članstvo sa 40 000 u 1907 na više od 1 000 000 do 1950. Postao je najveći savez zemlje do 1940. Predsjednici Dave Beck (1952–57) i James Hoffa (1957–71) oblikovao je Teamstere u snažno centraliziranu uniju koja je u stanju pregovarati o sporazumima o teretnom prijevozu širom zemlje. Predsjednici Ron Carey (1992.-1999.) I James P. Hoffa (1999.), sin bivšeg predsjednika, fokusirali su se na sigurnost posla i obiteljska pitanja.
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.
