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[8] [9] [36] [37] He was also elected a delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor, the Illinois Federation of Labor, and Teamsters Joint Council of Chicago. [30] [1] Through most of the 1950s Glimco was considered "Chicago's top labor racketeer". [5] One top Chicago Teamsters leader noted in 1954, "He is the mob.
He served as a secretary-treasurer for Chicago Teamsters Union Local 727, made up of parking lot attendants, funeral drivers, directors, embalmers and others. Coli instituted pensions, health insurance and negotiated lucrative contracts for his members during his tenure. Coli would run this local for 20 years up until his death.
After his release from prison, Shea abandoned his family. In January 1909, he moved to New York City after being hired by a Teamsters local there to help run a strike. He was quickly elected the local's secretary-treasurer. Shea was arrested on April 29, 1909, in connection with a fistfight which occurred during the strike, but was released.
Teamsters local unions in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana have filed unfair labor practice charges against PepsiCowith the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, the union says.
A Stark County man has been charged with with dissemination of child pornography, according to a release from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office.. Matthew R. Shipp, 19, of Toulon, Ill ...
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., says she was 'physically accosted' on the Capitol grounds over her fight to protect women. Police have charged an Illinois man with assaulting a government official.
Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa.Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfman's administration.
An Illinois man arrested in Chicago last weekend is accused of plotting to kidnap a boy in Florida and hold him for a $100,000 ransom, according to federal prosecutors.