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November 19, 2001
Hoffa Re-elected Teamsters President
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By Friday, after three days of counting, Hoffa had 66 percent of the vote to 34 percent for Tom Leedham, president of an Oregon Teamsters local.
"It's an overwhelming mandate that the members of this union want the Hoffa administration to run this union for the next five years," Hoffa said in a telephone interview with the New York Times. "It's also a mandate to get the government out of the affairs of the Teamsters union."
Hoffa also told the Times of his plans to persuade the Bush administration to end more than a decade of intensive federal supervision of what once was the nation's most corrupt union.
The victory gives Hoffa his first full five-year term as president of a 1.4 million member union.
William Wertheimer, the federal election supervisor, said Hoffa had 110,123 votes to 56,032 for Leedham. About 348,000 of the union's 1.4 million members voted, all by mail.
Leedham's spokeswoman, Sandy Pope, called his showing respectable, saying, "The 100,000 Teamsters who voted for Tom needed to be heard."
Regarding the outcome, Matt Ginsburg, the Leedham campaign coordinator, said, "The single biggest factor is that Hoffa had the advantage of incumbency in terms of name recognition, fund-raising and the ability to use the patronage system to get Teamster officers to back him."
Leedham, according to the Times, accused Hoffa of negotiating bad contracts, of not organizing enough, and of doing too little to rid the union of corrupt officials.
But Hoffa said: "The members see we are a can-do administration. We took this union that was really in chaos, and we've pulled it together."
Hoffa said his main bargaining goal was to obtain a good contract with the United Parcel Service, which endured a bruising Teamsters strike in 1997.
"It's our largest contract," he said. "It's over 210,000 people. We feel we're very fortunate to deal with a company that's financially sound and can award our members for their hard work."
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