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	The railroading of Ron Carey 03/27/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For the battered and dwindling labor movement, the downfall of outspoken, reform-minded Teamsters president Ron Carey on corruption charges last year was a crushing setback that occurred just when it seemed that labor might be getting back on its feet.
		And that, Corn says, is simply not supported by the evidence, which consists mainly of skimpy testimony from a former Carey associate facing a lengthy prison term, and from a secretary who apparently changed her story several times.
		Carey, currently on leave, is fighting to clear his name -- which Corn says is understandable, but which also may delay attempts by fellow reformers to put together a winning slate.
	home.earthlink.net /~dkennedy56/phoenix_980327carey.html (457 words)

	Teamsters-IBT President Ron Carey Indicted
		Ron Carey, the "reform" candidate who rose to the Presidency of the Teamsters in the 1990s has been charged with 7 counts of Perjury in regards to the illegal transfer of over $800,000 in Union money to fund Carey’s 1996 re-election campaign.
		Carey served for over 20 years as the President of a Union of UPS workers in New York and counted among his supporters workers involved in radical leftist causes.
		In 1998 Carey was permanently removed from the Teamsters Union as a result of the investigation of the charges upon which he is now under indictment.
	www.laborers.org /AmMafia_Carey_1-26-01.htm (536 words)

	Workers World Dec. 18, 1997: Union activists denounce frame-up of Carey
		Carey had been forced to take a leave from his job as head of the Teamsters union on Nov. 25 by a federal court and its agent, a lawyer who represents some of the most powerful Fortune 500 companies.
		Carey’s lawyer, Reid Weingarten, says the Teamsters president "was never given the opportunity to confront his accusers." In fact, the charges against Carey were framed in "secret proceedings conducted by Election Officer Conboy, [in] gross violation of Mr.
		Carey was the leader of the UPS strike, labor’s most successful action in decades.
	www.workers.org /ww/carey1218.html (703 words)

	Ron Carey cleared
		NEW YORK--Former Teamsters President Ron Carey was acquitted of all charges in a federal perjury trial here last week, a decision that exposed the frame-up that the government used to force him from the union.
		Carey’s court victory is also a vindication of the movement to chase Hoffa out of union office and democratize the union.
		The wrongdoing by Carey’s aides was used as a pretext to oust Carey himself.
	www.socialistworker.org /2001/380/380_11_Carey.shtml (630 words)

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		Ron Carey, former president of the powerful 1.4 million-member Teamsters union, is currently on trial in U.S. Federal District Court in New York.
		Carey was a key player and strategist in the election of John Sweeney to the leadership of the AFL-CIO in 1995.
		Carey is not a socialist, nor does he denounce capitalism, the system that spawns the very forces that are determined to destroy him.
	www.iacboston.org /golive_pages/carey090301.html (1143 words)

	September 2001: 'Forgotten Teamster' Ron Carey Goes on Trial
		The government's case against Carey largely rests on the testimony of once trusted aides, who are looking to trade their "good behavior" on the witness stand for reduced sentences.
		Carey has not been accused of participating in the scheme but he has been charged with lying about his knowledge of what went on.
		Carey is certainly not forgotten by his one-time opponents inside the nation's largest private-sector union.
	www.socialistaction.org /news/200109/carey.html (489 words)

	New Republic Writer Revisits Ron Carey
		Carey narrowly won that election, to the cheers of union reformers everywhere, but, in the aftermath of Murphy's discovery, the Justice Department has refused to certify the victory.
		A less charitable explanation - one advanced by Carey's opponents on Capitol Hill and within the Teamsters - is that federal watchdogs went soft on Carey because, under his leadership, the Teamsters had become a source of political support and campaign contributions for the Democratic Party.
		Even today, some Carey opponents doubt that Barbara Zack Quindel, the federal election monitor, would like to see Carey's victory annulled: it turns out she is married to a member of the board of the Wisconsin branch of Citizen Action.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/careywatch/birdcage.html (2141 words)

	Ron Carey Cleared of all Charges!
		Instead the central leaders of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) said that Carey’s case should not be likened to the tragic Sacco-Vanzetti case of 1920-27 (not that anyone did), which received support from workers all around the world.
		The TDU leaders said that the union’s members were primarily interested in their contracts and grievances and not with what was going on with Carey.
		In a prepared statement issued on the day of Carey’s acquittal, TDU broke its near-silence on the Carey trial, stating: “This is a good day for Teamsters and the labor movement.” But in the next sentence the statement blamed the victim, Carey, for his and the ranks’ plight.
	www.geocities.com /arcticreds/carey.html (1867 words)

	The middle class "left" and the fall of Ron Carey
		The purging of Carey and the charges against his allies in the AFL-CIO leadership are the retaliation of the Clinton administration and the capitalist state, aimed at undermining this leadership and suppressing a resurgent trade union movement.
		Carey did nothing to defend scores of strikers who were victimized and fired, and he offered no resistance when UPS announced it planned to fire thousands of workers in retaliation for the walkout.
		This labor lawyer from Milwaukee is a member of the New Party, and her husband, Roger Quindel, was elected as the New Party candidate to the post of Milwaukee country supervisor.
	www.wsws.org /public_html/iwb12-29/carey.htm (3828 words)

	Teamsters-Life After Ron Carey
		When they'd first heard the news of Carey's disqualification, these activists some of whom have endured years of threats, beatings and worse in pursuit of a more democratic union-were both angry and profoundly sad.
		Of equal concern to TDU leaders was the reform platform in the coming rerun, which draws from the UPS strike the lesson that democracy only makes the union stronger, and which they believe the members will prefer to Hoffa's top-down notion of union clout.
		On simple name recognition, none of these leaders holds a candle to Hoffa, but TDU activists hope that, given a choice between Hoffa's bluster and the reformers' good contracts at UPS, the freight companies and the warehouses, Teamsters will pick their team and their strategy.
	www.thelaborers.net /newspapers/LAWeek_11-28-97.html (1268 words)

	Ron Carey - Teamster Labor Pains
		Unlike last year's fiasco, Carey's earlier run was low-budget (costing less than $1 million) and based on the leafleting, phone-banking and organizing activity of hundreds of rank-and-file volunteers.
		The wealthy Detroit labor lawyer masqueraded successfully as a populist critic of a 'New Teamster" establishment that was spendthrift, incompetent and run by "outsiders." To strengthen his political base and survive a July 1996 convention dominated by the Hoffa forces, Carey decided to broaden his Executive Board slate.
		With Nash ~nstalled as Carey's campaign manager, they conspired to finance a costly "air war" on Carey's behalf that was viewed as a safe political substitute for fighting it out on the ground.
	www.laborers.org /ITT_12-14-97.html (2249 words)

	Carey
		But Carey is a public figure, and the lamentable dealings that led to his being disqualified for re-election and potentially barred from the union deserve scrutiny.
		Carey denied knowing that a hired consulting group had funneled union money into his re-election effort; but a federal monitor ruled that he was or should have been aware of the abuse and barred Carey from running in the next election.
		Labor Notes (1/98) cited a reform activist's comment, no doubt repeated at gatherings around the country, that "we're bigger than any one leader or candidate, because we are a movement." A simple enough idea that found little echo in the media arena.
	www.fair.org /extra/9803/carey.html (1452 words)

	Hoffa/Carey Race Analyzed-- 1997
		Ron Carey defeated Junior Hoffa and his anti-reform slate by a 52%-48% margin.
		It was a tough fight for the incumbent Carey, whose five year term of office witnessed the most ambitious anti-corruption campaign in the history of organized labor.
		Carey under direction of a federal court placed in trusteeship and replaced the regional leadership in the interests of removing the stigma of corruption and organized crime connections from a union of working people.
	www.ipsn.org /carey3.html (1888 words)

	Salon.com News \| Ron Carey is not a crook
		Last week, Ron Carey, who served for a time as president of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, was indicted on seven federal charges, each of which could bring him five years in prison.
		Carey is accused of having lied to federal officials back in 1997, when the officials were investigating a fundraising scandal in the union.
		Thirty years ago the American labor movement was in pathetic shape -- not in numbers or in political power (the decline in numbers and power came later) but in its integrity and honor.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2001/01/31/teamsters/print.html (1421 words)

	Former US Teamsters President Ron Carey expelled from union
		A three-member federal oversight panel has expelled former Teamsters President Ron Carey from the union for his role in the diversion of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the union treasury to finance his 1996 reelection campaign.
		The IRB found that Hamilton, one of Carey's close associates, "knowingly used his union position to cause union donations to be made in return for contributions." The board held Hamilton accountable as the top Teamsters officer responsible for political contributions.
		The Carey scandal has discredited those who claimed that his election as Teamsters president in 1991 represented a victory for union "reform." Carey, a long-time official who headed a large New York City Teamsters local, had been portrayed as a rank-and-file alternative to the mafia-infested old guard leadership.
	www.wsws.org /workers/1998/aug1998/carey-a1.shtml (754 words)

	Online NewsHour: Ron Carey barred from re-election -- November 17, 1997
		Ron Carey's re-election as president of the union is voided.
		PHIL PONCE: Last January Teamster President Ron Carey was officially named the winner in a narrow re-election over challenger James Hoffa, son of the legendary Teamster leader.
		It will be up to, you know, the reformers, who have relied on Ron Carey being at the top of their slate for so long to come up with somebody else, and they are scrambling to do that now.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/july-dec97/teamsters_11-17.html (1321 words)

	AllPolitics - Looking Beyond The Teamsters - Oct. 6, 1997
		Ron Carey, the reform leader of the Teamsters union, had become the darling of the labor movement--and the labor press--during his five-year tenure.
		Government sources told TIME that a federal grand jury in Manhattan is investigating not only Carey but also a cast of characters who had an interest in keeping his presidency alive, including two of America's most powerful labor leaders, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka.
		Carey says he is the victim of their misdeeds.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/29/time/teamsters.html (1082 words)

	Ron Carey - A more perfect unionist. By David Plotz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But while Carey is the first union official in a generation to intrude on America's public consciousness, and while the UPS strike is the most important and disruptive walkout since Reagan busted the air-traffic controllers in 1981, the Carey backlash is already under way.
		Carey has long objected to UPS' employment of part-time workers and its widely disparate pay scales, two concessions that the old, corrupt union leaders granted, and which are at the heart of the current strike.
		Carey is, deservedly, a great hero of New Labor, yet a certain pathos clouds his achievements.
	slate.msn.com /id/1829 (1239 words)

	Workers World Dec. 4, 1997: Gov't tightens control of Teamsters
		As a responsible labor leader, he was trying to prepare the membership for all contingencies.
		Defending Ron Carey is defending the Teamsters, and defending the Teamsters is defending all the unions.
		Labor’s response must also be at the highest level, demanding with all the power of the working class that the disqualification of Ron Carey be declared null and void.
	www.workers.org /archives/1997/carey1204.html (1538 words)

	Labor Standard 6 for Web
		Although the Feds ousted Carey, they never were able to turn up evidence that he had a hand in the scheme that lined the pockets of several Carey campaign aides.
		Carey’s lawyer has said that holding Carey responsible for what was going on behind Carey’s back is like holding a bank president responsible for the larceny of a bank teller.
		Carey has been ordered with court approval to stay away from the union and its members, including the rank and file.
	www.laborstandard.org /Vol2No1/Teamster_Notebook.htm (3640 words)

	The trial of Ron Carey [Free Republic]
		Carey's re-election, Hamilton was also responsible for funneling millions and millions of dollars from the nearly bankrupt Teamster treasury and its political action committee (PAC) into Democratic coffers.
		Carey on seven counts of lying at least 63 times to a federal grand jury, an election officer, the chief investigator for the IRB and the IRB itself.
		Carey wasn't indicted until long after federal officials had invalidated his re-election, barred him from the rerun and expelled him from the union, he had long ago lost control over the Teamster treasury and PAC.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b90884f2a33.htm (2103 words)

	Lee Sustar: Employers Attack; Unions Blink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Labor leaders are themselves implicated in corporate wrongdoing, with several top officials accused of insider trading scandals involving a union-run insurance company and the bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing.
		Soon afterward, however, Carey was removed from the union by government overseers amid charges of election violations and a witch hunt by employers and congressional Republicans.
		Labor activists should recall that the great labor upsurge of the 1930s was preceded by long and difficult struggles--many of them lost due to the incompetence of conservative leaders of the old AFL.
	www.counterpunch.org /sustar0925.html (2785 words)

	Condit's Polygrapher Barry Colvert - Teamster President Ron Carey passed lie test, ex-FBI agent says [Free Republic]
		A short time later, Carey emphatically told a federal panel that he "absolutely" was unaware of the scheme in which the Teamsters union contributed money to organizations in exchange for their funneling money into Carey's campaign.
		Carey was indicted on charges of perjury and making false statements during the investigation of his re-election, and currently faces a federal trial.
		Carey was not asked if he knew that other labor leaders, including AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka, allegedly had funneled prohibited donations to his campaign.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b4f8c135b4e.htm (2355 words)

	Labor Standard 4 for web
		Ron Carey started an organizing drive at Union Pacific’s subsidiary, Overnite, the nation’s largest non-union trucking firm.
		Carey’s strategy was to get enough of Overnite’s truckers and loaders in the union to get the muscle to bring the entire workforce under the National Master Freight Contract.
		A reported 500 officers from the Western States returned to their traditional stomping grounds in late June, the first large Teamster gathering there since Ron Carey was elected the union’s president in 1991.
	www.laborstandard.org /Vol1No4/Teamster_Notebook.htm (996 words)

	TAP: Vol 7, Iss. 24. Dear Brother Sweeney. Thomas Geoghegan. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This historian Fernand Braudel observed an inverse relation between "the welfare state" and "labor militancy." In Europe, he wrote, labor was most militant before the welfare state took hold.
		Labor courts for all, yes, all, even white male discharges (is that the right way to put it?).
		The great thing about Rich Trumka (Mineworkers) and Ron Carey (Teamsters) who led the break with Lane Kirkland is that each man had his own authentic base.
	www.prospect.org /print/V7/24/geoghegan-t.html (1892 words)

	Labor Takes A Fall (December 2, 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The corporate state will try to weaken or bring down political leaders hostile to their interests; it's as much a part of the political world as lunching lions are on the savannah.
		(Though no Carey opponents got buried in the East River, unlike the over 20 Teamsters-related murders in the '80s.) Ends not only don't justify means, but means are themselves part of the end, and Carey betrayed his movement politically by his choice of tactics--whether or not they were illegal.
		When APEC leaders in Vancouver propose bailing out the Ponzi schemes of repressive Southeast Asian economies with hundreds of billions of dollars in new loans, that money is to be bled from workers in every time zone on the planet.
	eatthestate.org /02-13/LaborTakesFall.htm (659 words)

	Socialist Viewpoint
		Though the jury couldn’t return Ron Carey to the union and its ranks that he so proudly served for 40 years, the jury did provide an opportunity for Teamsters to take the next step in getting Carey back where he rightly belongs.
		He had read an eyewitness report of Ron Carey’s trial and was convinced that the government had railroaded Ron Carey.
		At the time the government removed Carey from the Teamsters, all of organized labor was benefiting from the shot in the arm that the successful UPS strike provided.
	www.socialistviewpoint.org /dec_01/dec_01_16.html (531 words)

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