Series II. Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), 1975-2003, undated

The series comprises materials that reflect the Teamsters for a Democratic Union’s (TDU) involvement in the 22nd and 23rd IBT Conventions and the 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2000 IBT General Elections such as Ron Carey Slate election leaflets, mailings, reports, news articles, meeting agendas, press releases, and black-and-white and color photographs and negatives. International Steering Committee (ISC) mailings, convention policies, agendas, resolutions, and programs; financial reports; workshop materials; flyers, newsletters and from the 13th-18th, and 20th-27th annual TDU Rank and File Convention are included as well.

Mailings from Ken Paff, National Organizer of TDU, on behalf of the TDU International Steering Committee (ISC) which include agendas, convention documents, memoranda, reports, letters, leaflets, meeting minutes, news articles and bulletins regarding the election of delegates to the Ron Carey Slate for the 1991 International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) election, the TDU Rank-and-File Convention, the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust, the Working Teamsters Election Campaign, the 1992 Independent Review Board consent order, and U.S. Area Conferences are present, in addition to internal communications and memoranda to TDU staff and concerning policy statements and the Reform Officers Project as well as subject files for various TDU local chapters that include speech typescripts, convention reports, meeting agendas, flyers, leaflets, news articles, article drafts, and color photographs. There are also local union membership applications, lists, recruitment guides, and sign-up sheets in the series.

The series contains publications published by TDU such as Convoy Dispatch and The Fifth Wheel. A Bay Area Rank and File Monthly newspapers and newspaper articles, in addition to newsletters published by the Association for Union Democracy, Paperworkers for Reform, Teamsters United Rank and File (TURF), and “Picket Line.” Leaflets published by the Teamsters International Committee and the Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation are also included, as well as video recordings concerning the 1994 Paperworkers strike and “Teamster Fat Cats.”