By WFI Staff
Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. must feel like the walls are caving in around him. There’s a major pension crisis on his radar, which could very well cut into his years long family hustle of hard-earned worker retirement funds. And, as the United Parcel Service (UPS) is asking for a new provision in which Hoffa’s International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) should also contribute to employee health plans.
Hoffa’s not stopping there. Determined to squash any questions over his handling of the impending pension crisis that threatens to destroy the retirements of hundreds of thousands of workers, Hoffa is being accused of strong-arming one of his very own, the Federation of Agents and International Representatives (FAIR). If you remember, the NLRB allowed FAIR to organize its own union within the Teamsters and it’s been going downhill ever since. But, one would think that goes against the very core of what folks like Hoffa and other union bosses have been pushing for years.
Reports Daily Caller investigative reporter Patrick Howley: Hoffa still has not granted a contract to the Federation of Agents and International Representatives (FAIR), a union that represents Teamsters organizers. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) allowed FAIR to represent some Teamsters organizers last year in their negotiations with Hoffa, after organizers voted 18-16 to unionize in a Teamsters election.
The Hoffa administration’s battle with FAIR has been divisive, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller. Teamsters officials openly threatened their own organizers to discourage them from joining FAIR, leading to accusations that the Teamsters were union-busting their own employees’ union.
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