O’Brien said the union is being run by non-elected “full-time political hacks” who have never been Teamsters and whom other Teamster officials have complained about for years. “It is a situation which you tolerate, and I don’t have the confidence that you have the will to change,” O’Brien wrote.

In perhaps the most damning accusations, O’Brien said certain staff members at the international union have turned the UPS division and the union in general “into their own personal playground” and that the “games they are pursuing come at the expense of the membership.” The only name mentioned in the letter was that of Todd Thompson, who serves as an executive assistant to Hoffa. | More…

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