Founded: | 1976 |
Type: | Union Advocacy |
According to the World Socialist Web Site, a leading radical-left media resource, the founding members of the TDU were members of an organization called the International Socialists, which infiltrated the Teamsters Union in the 1960s and 1970s. The International Socialists organized on university campuses, including the
University of California at Berkeley, where TDU founding member and current caucus president Kenneth Paff was a student.
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is an activist caucus within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), which represents transportation workers and is one of the largest private-sector unions in the United States. The caucus claims to represent the interests of rank-and-file union...
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