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Jimmy Huffa (February 14, 1913 - July 30, 1982)

* Hoffa was a major labor leader for the Teamsters, dedicated to improving conditions for working families and advocating for the poor. Hoffa began union organizational work at the grassroots level as a teenager through his job with a grocery chain, which paid substandard wages and offered poor working conditions with minimal job security. The workers were displeased with that situation and tried to organize a union to better their wages. Although Hoffa was young, his courage and approachability in that role impressed fellow workers, and he rose to a leadership position. By 1932, after refusing to work for an abusive shift foreman, Hoffa left the grocery chain, partly because of his union activities. He was then invited to become an organizer with Local 299 of the Teamsters in Detroit. Between 1933 and 1935, Hoffa actively worked to recruit new members to the union; his favored tactic was to pull up on the road alongside sleeping truck drivers, wake them up, and give them his sales pitch.

* The Teamsters, founded in 1903, had 75,000 members in 1933. Teamsters' Later Programs: Modern Teamsters (like the United Way of Clarion County in the results) have programs like the Fitzgerald Ramp Fund, which provides handicap ramps for people under 63, but this is a current initiative, not directly Hoffa's personal project.

* The Teamsters organized truck drivers and warehousemen throughout the Midwest and then nationwide. Hoffa played a major role in the union's skillful use of "quickie strikes", secondary boycotts, and other means of leveraging union strength at one company, moves to organize workers at another, and finally to win contract demands at other companies. That process, which took several years starting in the early 1930s, eventually brought the Teamsters to a position of being one of the most powerful unions in the United States.