Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 30, 1994 TAG: 9405020147
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: NEWSDAY
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short
Teamsters President Ronald Carey, presenting the tentative contract as a union triumph because it omits an employer demand for $9-an-hour part-time workers, said he would urge the 75,000 drivers and terminal workers to vote yes on the four-year agreement. The mail ballot will take about a month.
About 400 Teamsters officials from the local unions whose members were on the picket lines decided at a closed meeting in Washington, D.C., to return the strikers to work, effective Friday night, but not to recommend the contract.
Carey attributed the lack of support for the contract to internal union politics. In 1991 he led a slate of reformers that swept the Teamsters' old guard from control of the national union, but Carey's political enemies continue in power in most regional and local union offices.
California Teamsters leader Chuck Mack, a leader of the anti-Carey forces, said it was a concessionary contract, not politics, that aroused the anger of the officials at the meeting. ``I think it will be approved reluctantly (by the rank and file), but we'll have a disenchanted and disillusioned membership,'' Mack said after the meeting.
by CNB