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<blockquote data-quote="InsideUPS" data-source="post: 1105589" data-attributes="member: 31414"><p><strong>Re: UPS's &quot;Final Offer&quot; Vs What We Won By Striking In 1997 Memory Lane</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)" target="_blank">Ron Carey (labor leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p>Stink.... Regardless of what you may dislike about Carey, I personally admired his leadership against UPS in 1997. If you read his Wikipedia biography, you cannot help to respect him for what he did and stood for. Besides...Carey was exonerated from any wrongdoing by a federal jury.</p><p></p><p>"He ran for re-election in 1996 and won, but in 1997 federal investigators discovered that the Carey campaign had engaged in an illegal donation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickback_(bribery)" target="_blank">kickback scheme</a> to raise more than $700,000 for the 1996 re-election effort.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-RushforCash-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>[/SUP] His re-election was overturned, Carey was disqualified from running for Teamsters president again, and he was subsequently expelled from the union for life.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-BarsTeamsterLeader-4" target="_blank">[4]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-Expelled-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>[/SUP] <strong><u>Although a federal jury ultimately cleared him of all wrongdoing in the scandal, the lifetime ban remained in place until his death.</u></strong>[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-CareyVindication-6" target="_blank">[6]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-Cleared-7" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645AD">[</span><span style="color: #0645ad">7</span><span style="color: #0645AD">]</span></a>"</p><p>[/SUP]</p><p></p><p>That said, I do believe we have the <u>best available</u> representatives (Hoffa/Hall) for our UPS negotiations at this time. If Hall can only be half of what Carey was, I believe we have a chance to secure a fair and decent contract. (Note...I did not say Great contract)..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsideUPS, post: 1105589, member: 31414"] [b]Re: UPS's "Final Offer" Vs What We Won By Striking In 1997 Memory Lane[/b] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)]Ron Carey (labor leader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Stink.... Regardless of what you may dislike about Carey, I personally admired his leadership against UPS in 1997. If you read his Wikipedia biography, you cannot help to respect him for what he did and stood for. Besides...Carey was exonerated from any wrongdoing by a federal jury. "He ran for re-election in 1996 and won, but in 1997 federal investigators discovered that the Carey campaign had engaged in an illegal donation [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickback_(bribery)"]kickback scheme[/URL] to raise more than $700,000 for the 1996 re-election effort.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-RushforCash-3"][3][/URL][/SUP] His re-election was overturned, Carey was disqualified from running for Teamsters president again, and he was subsequently expelled from the union for life.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-BarsTeamsterLeader-4"][4][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-Expelled-5"][5][/URL][/SUP] [B][U]Although a federal jury ultimately cleared him of all wrongdoing in the scandal, the lifetime ban remained in place until his death.[/U][/B][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-CareyVindication-6"][6][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Carey_(labor_leader)#cite_note-Cleared-7"][COLOR=#0645AD][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0645ad]7[/COLOR][COLOR=#0645AD]][/COLOR][/URL]" [/SUP] That said, I do believe we have the [U]best available[/U] representatives (Hoffa/Hall) for our UPS negotiations at this time. If Hall can only be half of what Carey was, I believe we have a chance to secure a fair and decent contract. (Note...I did not say Great contract).. [/QUOTE]
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