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TDU was started in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], in the 1970s, as an alliance of [[socialists]] who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of [[militant]] truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions,<ref>{{cite web |title=Teamsters for a Democratic Union |url=https://rfs.dsausa.org/case-studies/teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/ |website=Democratic Socialists of America |accessdate=8 July 2023 |archive-date=16 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616023920/https://rfs.dsausa.org/case-studies/teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/ |url-status=live}}</ref> after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective bargaining between union officials and employers at the expense of union members.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marvit |first1=Moshe |title=A Lesson on How to Unite Across Race and Class From… the Teamsters |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-lesson-on-how-to-unite-across-race-and-class-from-the-teamsters/ |website=The Nation |accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref>
TDU was started in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], in the 1970s, as an alliance of [[socialists]] who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of [[militant]] truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions,<ref>{{cite web |title=Teamsters for a Democratic Union |url=https://rfs.dsausa.org/case-studies/teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/ |website=Democratic Socialists of America |accessdate=8 July 2023 |archive-date=16 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616023920/https://rfs.dsausa.org/case-studies/teamsters-for-a-democratic-union/ |url-status=live}}</ref> after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective bargaining between union officials and employers at the expense of union members.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marvit |first1=Moshe |title=A Lesson on How to Unite Across Race and Class From… the Teamsters |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-lesson-on-how-to-unite-across-race-and-class-from-the-teamsters/ |website=The Nation |accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref>


==TDU influential activists==  
==TDU activists==  
* [[Dan La Botz]]
* [[Dan La Botz]]
* [[Pete Camarata]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Pete Camarata, Who Fought Fellow Teamsters for Reforms, Dies at 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/us/pete-camarata-who-fought-fellow-teamsters-for-reforms-dies-at-67.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=15 February 2014}}</ref>
* [[Pete Camarata]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Pete Camarata, Who Fought Fellow Teamsters for Reforms, Dies at 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/us/pete-camarata-who-fought-fellow-teamsters-for-reforms-dies-at-67.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=15 February 2014}}</ref>
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* [[Paul Alan Levy]], general counsel 1984–1999<ref name="Goldberg 2024">{{cite journal |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5015681 |title=At the Intersection of Federal Labor Law and Rank-and-File Activism: A Legal History of Teamsters for a Democratic Union |author=Michael J. Goldberg |journal=[[Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law]] |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=177–231 |date=December 13, 2024 |access-date=January 5, 2025 |ssrn=5015681 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.5015681 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Paul Alan Levy]], general counsel 1984–1999<ref name="Goldberg 2024">{{cite journal |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5015681 |title=At the Intersection of Federal Labor Law and Rank-and-File Activism: A Legal History of Teamsters for a Democratic Union |author=Michael J. Goldberg |journal=[[Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law]] |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=177–231 |date=December 13, 2024 |access-date=January 5, 2025 |ssrn=5015681 |doi=10.2139/ssrn.5015681 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Ken Paff]]
* [[Ken Paff]]
* [[Sandy Pope]], 2011 candidate for IBT president


==Endorsements==
==Endorsements==

Latest revision as of 14:41, 23 June 2025

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History

TDU was started in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s, as an alliance of socialists who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of militant truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions,[1] after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective bargaining between union officials and employers at the expense of union members.[2]

TDU activists

Endorsements

In November 2019, TDU members voted to endorse the Teamsters United O'Brien/Zuckerman slate for International President and Secretary/Treasurer.[5]

References

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Further reading

External links


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