Unfortunately for reformers, Fred Zuckerman, now the secretary-treasurer candidate on the Teamsters United slate, did not pick-up the fight for the members where he left-off in 2016. In 2018 UPS workers rejected an agreement that created another tier of drivers, but using the two-thirds rule in the Teamster constitution (the need for a two-thirds majority to reject a contract) Hoffa imposed the contract, because less than fifty percent of the members voted. The UPS contract that represents over 250,000 members has been at the center of the fight in the Teamsters since 2013 when eighteen supplements were rejected by a membership enraged over healthcare changes that O’Brien himself had helped craft. Hoffa then countered by firing O’Brien as director of the package division.įollowing the 2016 Teamsters election it became quite evident that O’Brien, who had been Hoffa’s most ardent old-guard warrior in New England, had aspirations to seek the union’s top position in 2021. Rebuffed by Hoffa, in 2017 O’Brien reached out to the leaders and rank and filers of the Teamsters United movement. For his part, O’Brien had a falling-out with Hoffa during the 2018 UPS contract negotiations. Vairma’s Teamster Power slate is made up of old-guard officers loyal to the current Hoffa administration in an attempt to keep the status-quo intact. Hoffa’s win in 1998 restored the old-guard to power. More importantly neither plans to slash the multiple salaries and other excessive perks officers have enjoyed since James P. Neither O’Brien nor Vairma are reformers, nor do they have a plan for the future of the union or for leading a successful mobilization drive to unionize Amazon as discussed by reformers at the first post-debate debrief. The other slate, Teamster Power, is headed by Steve Vairma of Local 455 in Denver. One is Sean O’Brien, who heads the Teamsters United Slate of the troubled Local 25 in Boston with its historic ties to corruption and organized crime. This year’s election will be a battle between two slates headed by current General Executive Board Vice-Presidents who ran on the 2016 Hoffa-Hall slate. The 2021 International Brotherhood Teamsters (IBT) General Election is under way and times for rank-and-file members could not be any bleaker. left, and Sean O’Brien, center.Įditors’ note: This is the first of two articles with background about the union’s recent history, intended to inform readers about the election of officers now taking place in the Teamsters union (International Brotherhood of Teamsters). Tim O'Brien is now a visiting professor and endowed chair at Texas State University - San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University) where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program.James Hoffa. O'Brien's career as a reporter gave way to his fiction writing after publication of his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home. Having the opportunity to do an internship at the Washington Post, he eventually left Harvard to become a newspaper reporter. No doubt he was one of very few Vietnam veterans there at that time, much less Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) holders. O'Brien's tour of duty was 1969-70.Īfter Vietnam he became a graduate student at Harvard. He was assigned to 3rd Platoon, A Company, 5th Battalion, 46th Infantry, as an infantry foot soldier. O'Brien was against the war but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the "unlucky" Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods. Graduation in 1968 found him with a BA in political science and a draft notice. Tim O'Brien matriculated at Macalester College. This book will also help you change the world of others. Now he shares his expertise with you so that you can understand your mind and change your world. If you want to perform better as an individual or as a team you have to know your inner story too - but how much do you know about yours? For years Tim has worked behind-the-scenes in global businesses, elite sport and with high profile public figures. If you want to understand and change how you think, feel and behave or if you want to be more confident, successful and happier you have to know your inner story. It is created in your mind and controls everything that you think, feel and do. The other is controlling your life - that story is your Inner Story. Written by award-winning psychologist Dr Tim O’Brien, "wholeheartedly" recommended by Sir Elton John and endorsed by Arsene Wenger, Manager of Arsenal Football Club in the English Premier League, this is a book about you.
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