James P. Hoffa the worst freight recession in generations. Hoffa and the Teamsters were credited in several news reports for helping YRC avert bankruptcy. Bloomberg said Goldman Sachs helped YRCW complete the debt swap after the 'Teamsters Union said the bank was trying to profit from a failure of the largest U.S. trucker by sales." Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term heading the Teamsters Union in November 2011. He won nearly 59 percent the vote for another five-year term. The three-way race was between Hoffa, Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope. Gegare is a Wisconsin Teamster, trustee on a pension fund and a
Oilfields Workers' Trade Union Oilfields Workers' Trade Union The Oilfields Workers' Trade Union or OWTU is one of the most powerful trade unions in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently led by Ancel Roget, the union was born out of the 1937 labour riots, the union was nominally led by the imprisoned TUB Butler but was actually organised by lawyer Adrian Cola Rienzi. The union was established on July 25, 1937, and formally registered on September 15. The first meetings were held in Fyzabad, and the first official headquarters were established on Coffee Street, San Fernando. In the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of George