BETRAYAL
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Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union
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Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union
Instead of building cases and prosecuting criminal elements in the Teamsters Union in 1989, the Department of Justice, under then US Attorney Rudy Giuliani, takes “temporary” control of the entire International Teamsters Union, but was extended for more than three decades trampling free speech and due process for 1.4 million union members.
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Free Speech Trampled
Misguided Justice Dept takeover of Teamsters Union tramples free speech and due process, destroying livelihoods and lives in its wake.
William Hogan Jr.
former Chairman of Teamster Joint Council 25 and head of Chicago Teamster Local 714
“This is about a group of people who stood up for the membership and now they have to be eliminated. This is about absolute power.”
Jack Goldsmith
Harvard Law Professor, former Asst. US Attorney General and author of In Hoffa’s Shadow
“I think there was a case for an aggressive step [by the Department of Justice] but they were very aggressive and it went on arguably for much too long… And then [Judge] Edelstein interpreted it that all the bill of rights protections didn’t apply to what he was doing.”
Dan Graff
Director of Higgins Labor Program at Notre Dame
“There is nothing that would suggest the federal government has ever had much of an interest in protecting ordinary member of unions and their interests.”
Christie Hefner
former CEO of Playboy, civil liberties activist
“Often things that are borne of good intentions and at a time when they are needed live long beyond the time when they are required to be in place. Hence the saying “The road to hell if paved with good intentions.”
Robert McCay
attorney who filed the lawsuit challenging the government takeover
“The [union convention] vote was overwhelmingly against the consent decree, yet it was nevertheless adopted [by the Department of Justice]; in direct violation of the democratic process, 1.4 million members were stripped of their rights, and the government took over.”