THE PERILS OF TEAMSTERS' BOSS RON CAREY

THE TEAMSTERS' BOSS CALLS A STRIKE AGAINST UPS, BUT IF HE DOESN'T WIN, MORE THAN TRUCKS ARE GOING TO ROLL

Poor Ron Carey. He could be a labor hero for cleaning up the Teamsters Union since becoming its president in 1991. But that distinction has eluded him. Carey, 61, is in the middle of a bitter internal power struggle as well as a federal investigation into charges that an aide diverted more than $100,000 of union funds last year to Carey's campaign for re-election. To these headaches is added the wrath of millions of Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts. "I'm mad at the Teamsters Union,"...

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