The Teamsters Meet His Majesty

The Teamsters should never have messed with New Orleans. Here King Carnival rules.

When the Mardi Gras parade captains held their historic meeting, we had been through two police walkouts. February 8, and again on February 16. The first strike had gotten our cops their long-overdue raises and some other things they wanted, although our black mayor, Dutch (Ernest) Morial, had stuck to his guns about dealing only with the local fraternal police group, FOP, as bargaining agent for the cops. In other words, he had thumbed his nose at PANO, the newer Teamster-led group that has been trying to muscle in.

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Ed Haessler

The Teamsters should never have messed with New Orleans. Here King Carnival rules.

When the Mardi Gras parade captains held their historic meeting, we had been through two police walkouts. February 8, and again on February 16. The first strike had gotten our cops their long-overdue raises and some other things they wanted, although our black mayor, Dutch (Ernest) Morial, had stuck to his guns about dealing only with the local fraternal police group, FOP, as bargaining agent for the cops. In other words, he had thumbed his nose at PANO, the newer Teamster-led group that has been trying to muscle in.