>Jim Devine:
>
>> speaking of which, how come we didn't celebrate Jimmy
>> Hoffa's birthday yesterday?? how quickly we forget.
>
>Unlike Nathan, I am not interested in finding redemptive qualities in Gus
>Bevona, but I agree with him that Hoffa was a more complicated story. While
>Jackie Presser was more straightforwardly corrupt, Hoffa in his origins was
>a genuine unionist, and to some extent never forgot that. All hail the
>heroic Teamster reformers and all, and I'd never suggest that we should go
>back to that era -- but there is something to be said for the Master Freight
>Agreement and all it meant.
Yeah, but could it survive trucking deregulation?
Doug