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Teamsters Ethics Journey (Ethikos) Teamsters Ethics Journey (Ethikos) March/April 2000 - By Andrew W. Singer. Teamsters Revving Up For A Non-Stop Ethics Journey It is a daunting challenge: To bring ethics and accountability to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)—long viewed as one of the most intractably corrupt labor unions in America.But in January, the 1.4 million-member union unveiled Project RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength, Ethics), which calls for the Teamsters to develop a code of conduct, conduct ethics training, establish a permanent ethics office, and complete a study to determine the level of organized crime’s influence on the union—all by year-end 2000."When I ran for office, I promised to run a clean union," Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa told a special meeting of the union’s leadership. "I now call on you to be our partners in fulfilling this commitment. The successful return of the Teamsters to the members of this union will require our complete attention. It is one of the most important tasks that lay before us."The task of making this happen falls in large part upon Edwin Stier, a partner in Stier, Anderson & Malone, a New Jersey law firm, and his project partners: the Ethics Resource Center (Washington, DC) and Jim Kossler & Associates.To create a new ‘culture’Stier is no stranger to the Teamsters. He was the court-appointed trustee of Local Union 560 (Union City, NJ), arguably the most corrupt local within the IBT. His work in cleaning up that local drew the attention of Hoffa (son of the legendary labor leader, James R. Hoffa), who subsequently asked Stier to try the same thing on a national scale. The Teamsters union has been under government oversight for more than a decade as a result of its past ties to organized crime."We’re doing something fundamentally different from what has ever been attempted before," says Stier in a recent interview. Other unions have been subjected to government oversight. But in those cases, "they brought in people from the outside to act as policemen. Full Article: http://www.singerpubs.com/ethikos/html/teamsters.html |
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