Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union is a grassroots rank and file organization whose goal is to reform the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, or Teamsters Union. The organization has chapters nationwide in the United States and Canada.
History
TDU was started in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s, as an alliance of socialists who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of militant truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions, after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective bargaining between union officials and employers at the expense of union members.TDU activists
- Dan La Botz
- Pete Camarata
- Thomas Geoghegan
- Paul Alan Levy, general counsel 1984–1999
- Ken Paff
- Sandy Pope, 2011 candidate for IBT president