The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is holding its first national election since 2011, and longtime Teamsters President James P. Hoffa is on that ballot.
“Overdrive’s “Todd Dills adds:
“But there’s another candidate some watchers believe holds a chance of pulling off an upset. Teamsters’ Louisville, Kentucky, Local 89 leader Fred Zuckerman is a candidate for the General Presidency, joined by a slate of regional vice presidents covering much of the nation and others running under the Teamsters United banner on a platform of better organizing, fewer concessions to employers in contract negotiations and generally increasing the size and scope of the union to bolster its viability as a path to the middle class for the freight haulers and others among the rank and file.”