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- <text id=89TT0833>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: American Notes:Labor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 45
- American Notes
- LABOR
- New Deal for The Teamsters
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For 30 years the sound of prison doors clanging shut has
- provided the background music for the transition from one
- Teamster president to the next. From Dave Beck in 1958 to Jackie
- Presser in 1986, four of the past six Teamster chiefs have been
- accused or convicted of felonies, often involving organized
- crime.
- </p>
- <p> Now the union's 1.7 million members will get a chance to
- end this sordid history. In a settlement of civil-racketeering
- charges brought by the Justice Department, the Teamsters last
- week agreed to far-reaching reforms, including the institution
- of secret elections by the rank and file. In New York City,
- Federal District Judge David Edelstein will appoint an elections
- officer to supervise the 1991 balloting.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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