Sentence examples for monitor the union from inspiring English sources

The consent decree agreed to by the union involved creating a team of investigators and a judicial panel, the Independent Review Board, to monitor the union closely and to expel members and officials involved with organized crime.

In 1995, the union entered into a consent decree with the government allowing a former head of the Justice Department's organized crime and racketeering section to monitor the union by investigating accusations of corruption and dealings with organized crime.

Still on his caseload was United States v. the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the landmark lawsuit first brought by the Justice Department in 1988, and he continued to play an active role in the efforts to monitor the union.

Dave Carman, a Vietnam vet and a neighbor of the Clancys, said the cemetery contains the graves of local veterans from every major American conflict up to the gulf war, including Mr. Carman's great-grandfather, Caleb Carman, a sailor who he said had died in the Civil War while fighting on the Monitor, the Union warship.

To buttress his assertion that the union was not stifling investigations, Mr. Szymanski noted that the Teamsters had forwarded Mr. Stier's investigative reports to the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor and the Independent Review Board, a federally appointed panel that helps monitor the union.

Just to the north, a woman who sometimes dresses in Civil War uniforms to deliver school lectures hopes to buy a cove from a Saudi-owned oil company for a museum dedicated to the warship Monitor, the Union ironclad, which was built nearby.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced yesterday that federal officials were ending an unusual arrangement in which the government monitored the union's finances.

The government placed a financial monitor at the union in 1997 after federal officials found that aides to Ron Carey, the Teamsters' president at the time, had misused more than $700,000 in union money to help Mr. Carey's re-election campaign.

But several former prosecutors and monitors of the union said it might be premature to end the supervision.

In 1989, when Mr. Bush's father was president, the Teamsters reluctantly agreed to broad government supervision in which dozens of federal monitors oversee the union's elections and conduct investigations and trials to root out corruption.

The Manhattan district attorney's office has long sought, unsuccessfully, to have a court-appointed monitor take over the union.