Re: Illinois as model for Democratic agenda

John Lacny wrote:

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

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