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Workers have almost no say over what union bosses do — even their votes don’t count

By Mark Mix
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Workers have almost no say over what union bosses do — even their votes don’t count

Back in the late 1970s, then-Teamsters czar Frank Fitzsimmons, a one-time protege of Jimmy Hoffa who took over the union after Hoffa was imprisoned, provoked laughter when he referred to the mob-infested outfit he headed as “the most democratic institution God ever put on this earth.”

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