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Teamsters shut down ‘dysfunctional’ local

By Jay Fitzgerald
Globe Correspondent / February 4, 2012
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The Teamsters Union has shut down a controversial South Boston local that once handled all the trade shows at Boston’s two convention centers, concluding that years of infighting and allegations of corruption and nepotism had made it too “dysfunctional’’ to survive.

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