Jimmy Hoffa security. The workers were displeased with this situation and tried to organize a union to better their lot. Although Hoffa was young, his bravery and approachability in this role impressed fellow workers, and he rose to a leadership position. By 1932, after defiantly refusing to work for an abusive shift foreman, who inspired Hoffa's long career of organizing workers, he left the grocery chain, in part because of his union activities. Hoffa was then invited to become an organizer with the Local 299 of the Teamsters in Detroit. The Teamsters union, founded in 1903, had 75,000 members in 1933. As
Trade Union Congress (Burma) the Burma Workers and Peasants Party. In 1951, the socialist leader Ba Swe became the President of TUC(B). Trade Union Congress (Burma) The Trade Union Congress (Burma) was a central trade union organization in Burma. The TUC(B) was founded by the Socialist Party in November 1945, in an attempt to counter the influence of the communist-led All Burma Trade Union Congress. Ba Cho was the President of TUC(B). The TUC(B) was an affiliate of the governing Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. In 1949 Thakin Lwin became the president of the TUC(B). Under Lwin's leadership, the TUC(B) steered towards an openly communist