Sean O'Brien will be the next president of the 1.4-million-member Teamsters union, succeeding James Hoffa, the son of the union's most famous leader who has led the union for 23 years.
O'Brien, a fourth-generation member of the union, has been a harsh critic of Hoffa and the contract negotiated with UPS by his administration in 2018. That contract was opposed by 54% of rank-and-file members of the union. But because less than two-thirds of eligible union members at the trucking giant participated in the ratification vote, Hoffa was able to put the contract into effect despite opposition.
The election ended Monday and votes were being counted by an election monitor since then. The vote was not complete early Thursday evening, but O'Brien was ahead by nearly 58,000 votes with only 35,000 ballots left to count, according to totals from the election monitor. O'Brien thanked his supporters in a statement posted on the campaign's web site.Sean O'Brien, the president-elect of the 1.4 million-member Teamsters union.
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