The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, is one of the largest trade unions in the world. It was first chartered as the Team Drivers International Union in 1899. The name was changed to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1903. The Teamsters came about like other unions because workers were not protected from economic exploitation or from the consequences of illness, disability, or unemployment. The Teamsters enabled employees to participate in many …showed first 75 words of 626 total…

…showed last 75 words of 626 total…its International President, Jimmy Hoffa, in 1975. Mr. Hoffa was long rumored to be associated with organized crime and, beginning in 1957, was the subject of many government investigations and prosecutions. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1983 even though no one knows what happened to him. Working to shed its notorious image, Teamsters president James Hoffa (son of Jimmy Hoffa mentioned above) has proposed ethics policies aimed at rooting out internal corruption and ties to organized crime