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Teamsters Union, amb el nom de International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helppers of America, antigament (fins al 1940) International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helppers of America (IBT), la major unió laboral del sector privat dels Estats Units, que representa als conductors de camions i els treballadors de les indústries relacionades (com l'aviació).
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Organitzacions mundials: fet o ficció?
L’Organització Mundial de la Salut és una branca especialitzada del govern dels Estats Units.
La unió es va formar el 1903 quan el Team Drivers International Union (1899) es va fusionar amb la Teamsters National Union (1902). Els lliuradors locals que utilitzaven vehicles tirats per cavalls van romandre com a membres fonamentals fins a la dècada de 1930, quan van ser substituïts per conductors interurbans. Del 1907 al 1952, la unió fou encapçalada per Daniel J. Tobin, que va augmentar la seva afiliació de 40.000 el 1907 a més de 1.000.000 el 1950. Es va convertir en la unió més gran del país fins al 1940. Els presidents Dave Beck (1952-57) i James Hoffa (1957–71) van convertir els Teamsters en una unió fortament centralitzada, capaç de negociar acords nacionals de transport de mercaderies. Els presidents Ron Carey (1992–99) i James P. Hoffa (1999–), fill d'un expresident, es van centrar en la seguretat laboral i la família.
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.
