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    The writers' strike's top ally: an F-bomb-throwing Teamster with a Jimmy Hoffa tattoo

    by Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times May 12, 2023 5 minutes
    Lindsay Dougherty is the incoming secretary treasurer of Teamsters Hollywood local 399. It is a powerful and mixed union of entertainment industry workers from truckers to location managers based in LA. She sits in her office below a photo of legendary Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa.

    Lindsay Dougherty has become one of the most prominent voices of the writers' strike, fighting on behalf of Hollywood's scribes. But she's not a screenwriter.

    She's a Teamster boss with a penchant for F-bombs, forceful rhetoric and a tattoo of notorious union boss Jimmy Hoffa decorating her left bicep.

    The Teamsters Local 399 head took the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium stage May 3 to deliver a fiery speech to Writers Guild of America members, who'd just begun their first strike in 15 years.

    Dougherty received a standing ovation before rousing the crowd with an expletive-dappled barnburner, vowing that Teamsters would not cross writers' picket lines.

    "If we all want to get whats ours, we are going to have to fight for it tooth and nail," Dougherty said. "If you throw up a picket line, those f— trucks

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