Abstract

Carey Challenges the Porkchoppers

The article presents information on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reformer Ron Carey. Carey's vigorous reform campaign, buoyed by the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (T.D.U.) and other backers, is likely to be the U.S. labor movement's biggest story in the next two years. Carey's rousing speech was the highlight of a convention marked throughout by determination. It was the rank and file, not the pie-carders who greeted Carey's words with loud applause. Their energy and seriousness were in marked contrast to the usual teamsters conclave in Miami or Las Vegas, where eating and drinking at the brotherhood's expense and paying obeisance to the aged, pasty-faced union godfathers are the main order of business.