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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 14 > Ron Carey led Teamster reforms, ousted in scandal

Ron Carey led Teamster reforms, ousted in scandal

By Steven Greenhouse / The Bulletin
December 14, 2008

NEW YORK — Ron Carey, a parcel truck driver from Queens County who became president of the Teamsters union and led a successful strike by 185,000 workers against United Parcel Service, but was then ousted in a campaign finance scandal, died Thursday in Queens. He was 72.

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