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TEAMSTERS UNION * USA - New York Teamster Leader to Run Against Hoffa
Local 805 president Pope criticizes contract, pension agreements
New York,NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Oct 12, 2010: -- A dissident Teamster who started her career as a warehouse worker and truck driver is challenging James P. Hoffa for the top job in the Teamsters union... Sandy Pope, president of Teamsters Local 805 in New York City, last week said she will run for general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters... The dissident group Teamsters for a Democratic Union quickly endorsed Pope, who ran for secretary-treasurer on the TDU slate in 2006... Pope is the second Teamster official to openly challenge Hoffa, who has led the Teamsters union since 1998 and was re-elected in 2001 and 2006... Wisconsin Teamster leader Fred Gegare, a former Hoffa supporter and Teamsters vice president at large since 1998, announced his candidacy in May... The challenges from Pope and Gegare a year before the election highlight dissatisfaction with Hoffa's handling of union pensions and company contracts... In an interview with Labor Notes, a union activist magazine and Web site, Pope criticized a 2006 agreement that let UPS pull out of the IBT pension plans... Gegare voiced similar concerns in May, also criticizing what he called the "top-down" attitude toward local union autonomy at the international union... Ballots will be mailed to the union's 1.3 million members in October 2011 and counted that November...
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