RFK Jr. sides with Teamsters in Sotheby's auction house union fight

Source: Detroit News

MARCH 8, 2012 AT 3:22 PM
RFK Jr. sides with Teamsters in Sotheby's auction house union fight
BY DAVID SHEPARDSON DETROIT NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU


Washington- The Hoffa and Kennedy families appear to be patching up relations nearly four decades after a well-publicized fight, and they are doing it through the handling of a labor conflict.

As U.S. attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy targeted then-Teamsters President James R. Hoffa for prosecution, leading to Hoffa's indictment in 1963 and and conviction in 1964 of attempting to bribe jurors. Hoffa served four years in prison.

Hoffa disappeared in Bloomfield Township in 1975, and his body was never found. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Now his son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental attorney who hosts a radio show, decided that his environmental group, Waterkeeper Alliance, would move a charity auction from Sotheby's "out of respect for the striking Teamsters."


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