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Freight Strike a Test of Hoffa's Mettle
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/us/freight-strike-a-test-of-hoffa-s-mettle.html
At daybreak today, Ernie Soehl, a gruff-voiced fireplug of a man, was already yelling orders to the picket line of teamsters just north of Giants Stadium.
Wearing black nylon teamster jackets that glowed in the passing headlights, the pickets had massed, placards in hand, outside the Overnite Transportation Company's truck terminal, to further James P. Hoffa's crusade to stop the decline in the teamsters' freight division, which his father once built into a swaggering symbol of union might.
Mr. Soehl, vice president of a New Jersey local, told the assembled protesters to fan out in twos and threes, follow Overnite trucks throughout North Jersey and set up picket lines wherever they made deliveries, to pressure Overnite's customers to turn to other trucking companies.
For 12 days now, since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters began a nationwide strike against Overnite, the union and the company, one of the nation's largest nonunion shipping concerns, have played cat and mouse.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/us/freight-strike-a-test-of-hoffa-s-mettle.html
At daybreak today, Ernie Soehl, a gruff-voiced fireplug of a man, was already yelling orders to the picket line of teamsters just north of Giants Stadium.
Wearing black nylon teamster jackets that glowed in the passing headlights, the pickets had massed, placards in hand, outside the Overnite Transportation Company's truck terminal, to further James P. Hoffa's crusade to stop the decline in the teamsters' freight division, which his father once built into a swaggering symbol of union might.
Mr. Soehl, vice president of a New Jersey local, told the assembled protesters to fan out in twos and threes, follow Overnite trucks throughout North Jersey and set up picket lines wherever they made deliveries, to pressure Overnite's customers to turn to other trucking companies.
For 12 days now, since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters began a nationwide strike against Overnite, the union and the company, one of the nation's largest nonunion shipping concerns, have played cat and mouse.