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• n  the driver of a team of horses doing hauling
• n  someone who drives a truck as an occupation

• teamsters boss ron carey is barred from running for re-election.

• trucker
• truck driver

News & Articles

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• Ex-Teamster trustee accused of taking bribes in scheme to thwart union organizing
  According to a federal indictment, from 2003 to 2008, Michael Townsend and other co-conspirators tried to prevent Teamsters Local 337 from organizing the employees of LaGrasso Brothers Produce Inc. They did this, the indictment said, by creating a front company known as Sam LaGrasso Produce Co.
  June 15, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Federal grand jury in Detroit indicts former Teamster
  A former Teamster has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and bribery charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday.
  June 14, 2013 - Detroit News

Quotes

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• Peter Hoekstra in DetNews.com
  You can get a Mexican truck driver to work for a heck of a lot less than a Teamster in the United States, and you can get a Mexican dock worker to work for a heck of a lot less than a longshoreman in the United States and that's what this is... Peter DeFazio http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_DeFazio&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGeT9O295JbeZil6_f8_6CvrpaPFA USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-15-mexican-truck-bill_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEQO3GsYQWrWCBot4RfbeQJ6kEtUA May 15, 2007 98511 130704 teamster This was an opportunity bungled by the Bush administration," Hoekstra says. "If Bush had built this relationship, the worst place we'd be today is a Teamster Union that was neutral, which would be an awesome place to be."
• Craig Mazin in Hollywood Reporter
  We waited until late in the game to negotiate,Mazin wrote. "They didn't move. We threatened a strike. They didn't move. We threatened Teamster support. They didn't move. We got the showrunners to walk out entirely. They didn't move. We...