The International Brotherhood of Teamsters' home page offers general information on the union but has not been updated since August, due to a court order prohibiting it from publishing materials until after the election. Teamsters for a Democratic Union oppose Hoffa's candidacy and maintain a Hoffa Watch to explain why. LaborNet , part of the left-leaning Institute for Global Communications, is a resource for the labor movement. The right-leaning Heritage Foundation gives its take on labor at its Labor Home Page . A struggle for the Teamsters union's soul .
Unions seek to rebuild their political and economic clout .
Click here for a special offer. Click here for our free newsletter. Leedham, a former crate stacker, was active in Carey's reform wing of the Teamsters. Carey was ejected from the Teamsters in August. Leedham now must unify Carey's fractured base while taking on an opponent with possibly the best-known name in labor history, Jimmy Hoffa, son of the late Teamsters chieftain, presumed killed by mobsters in 1975.