The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), also known as the Teamsters Union, is a major industrial UNION in the United States with a long and contentious history. Created in 1903, with Cornelius Shea elected as president, the Teamsters Union grew to represent over 1 million workers. Teamsters were men who drove horse-drawn wagons. The initial teamsters were quickly replaced with truck drivers, and the union expanded to represent different groups of transportation-related workers. The Teamsters describe their goal as follows: “To make life better for Teamster members and their families—and for all working families—the Teamsters organize the unorganized, make workers’ voices heard in all corridors of power, negotiate CONTRACTs that make the AMERICAN DREAM a reality for millions, protect workers’ health and safety, and fight to keep jobs in North America.” After their initial meeting in 1903, the Teamsters met with considerable opposition, the bloodiest of which was a 100-day strike against Montgomery Ward in 1905, during which 21 lives were lost. The union has a long history of dissent and conflict both internally and externally. Local unions, opposed to national corruption and manipulation, have often seceded from the national union. The most famous Teamsters president was Jimmy Hoffa, who was elected in 1957 and disappeared in 1975. With DEREGULATION of the trucking industry in the 1980s, Teamsters Union membership declined along with union membership in general in the United States. The 1997 United Parcel Service (UPS) strike brought a surprising resurgence in the Teamsters Union’s influence as UPS management underestimated public and business support for UPS drivers. Businesses and consumers knew their UPS drivers by name, respected their fast and professional service, and supported union demands for increased EMPLOYMENT of full-time workers.