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Ron Carey

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Ronald Robert Carey
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March 22, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.
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Dec. 11, 2008, Flushing, Queens, N.Y. (aged 72)
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Ron Carey (born March 22, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 11, 2008, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.) was an American labour leader and general president, from 1991 to 1997, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the first Teamsters president elected by direct vote of rank-and-file members. Carey, the son of a Teamster, joined the union in 1956 as a United Parcel Services (UPS) truck driver in Queens, New York, and was elected president of Teamsters Local 804 in 1967. He often spoke out against the IBT, claiming the union was a locus for mobsters and was run as an autocracy. ...(100 of 256 words)

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