On January 15, 1964, Jimmy Hoffa did the impossible. He signed a national contact between 15,000 trucking companies and his Teamsters' Union with its 2 million members.
It was the first national contract in U.S. labor history and Hoffa's greatest achievement as a labor leader.
Not everyone was happy. That contract, noted critics, give Hoffa a stranglehold over our economy. "Now he can call a national truckers' strike."
"I'm not going to call a friggin' nation-wide strike," Hoffa protested.
But Congress didn't believe him. It cooked up legislation to outlaw strikes by national truckers.
from:
THAT PUNK JIMMY HOFFA!
I Watched My Dad Beat the Teamsters
A Daughter's Memoir
by Marilyn June Coffey
Publication Date: July 30
the date Hoffa "disappeared"
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