Teamsters Start Voting For Leader

The Teamsters rerun election got under way Monday as a court-appointed officer mailed ballots to the union’s 1.4 million members.

Members have one month to choose whether James P. Hoffa or Tom Leedham will become their next president. A third declared candidate, John Metz, hasn’t fielded a campaign.

Hoffa narrowly lost his bid to unseat incumbent Ron Carey in 1996, but the results of that contest were overturned and Carey was barred from the rerun after investigators found that Carey’s campaign benefited from an illegal fund-raising scheme.