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How Hoffa Mishandles Corruption
The backstory reveals a lot about how the Hoffa administration mishandles corruption when it crops up in a local union. For some 18 months prior to the imposition of the trusteeship, an officer of the local union was in touch with the IBT and providing hard evidence of embezzlement and violations of the bylaws.
Marc Archer, the Recording Secretary and a BA, exposed it in detail. And was promptly fired as a BA in May 2016 for his efforts.
How did the Hoffa administration handle this unfortunate situation? He sent in Keith Gleason, the head of Local 627 and Illinois Joint Council 25 downstate director to investigate. Which he did, but mainly to cover it up and protect the embezzlers.
By then Archer had resorted to informing the Department of Labor about the corruption, which the IBT failed to clean up. So now, the indictments have come down.
“For months I wrote and called the IBT to tell them abuses were happening,” Archer stated. “Finally Hoffa imposed the trusteeship last summer, but it was just months before our scheduled election. We planned to run a slate and vote Alexander out of office. With the trusteeship, the election couldn’t happen.”
My circle of friends is getting smaller
and smaller as the Feds close in on me!
How Hoffa Mishandles Corruption
The backstory reveals a lot about how the Hoffa administration mishandles corruption when it crops up in a local union. For some 18 months prior to the imposition of the trusteeship, an officer of the local union was in touch with the IBT and providing hard evidence of embezzlement and violations of the bylaws.
Marc Archer, the Recording Secretary and a BA, exposed it in detail. And was promptly fired as a BA in May 2016 for his efforts.
How did the Hoffa administration handle this unfortunate situation? He sent in Keith Gleason, the head of Local 627 and Illinois Joint Council 25 downstate director to investigate. Which he did, but mainly to cover it up and protect the embezzlers.
By then Archer had resorted to informing the Department of Labor about the corruption, which the IBT failed to clean up. So now, the indictments have come down.
“For months I wrote and called the IBT to tell them abuses were happening,” Archer stated. “Finally Hoffa imposed the trusteeship last summer, but it was just months before our scheduled election. We planned to run a slate and vote Alexander out of office. With the trusteeship, the election couldn’t happen.”
My circle of friends is getting smaller
and smaller as the Feds close in on me!
