Glimco himself became president, despite the fact that he had never driven a cab. After muscling his way into control of the Chicago Federation of Labor through a campaign of bombings, shootings, and intimidation, Glimco took over the Teamsters local by threatening to kill the family of its president, Dominic Abata. He was also an associate of Frank (the Enforcer) Nitti, who took over the Outfit when Al Capone went to prison. According to a Chicago Tribune expose on his career, “Little Joey” got his start as “a slugger in the Poultry Handlers Union,” shaking down merchants in the Fulton Street Market. Glimco, the president of Teamsters Local 777, which represented taxi and truck drivers, was known as Chicago’s No. 1 labor racketeer. But Teamsters lost the dispute, which was considered a major defeat for Hoffa and the Chicago Outfit. In reality, taxicabs did end up at the bottom of the Chicago River during a membership contest between the Teamsters and a rival union. Hoffa is so impressed he takes Sheeran under his wing, beginning a long friendship that will end only when Sheeran shoots Hoffa in the head. That night, when Glimco complains that pushing cars into the river is too much work, Sheeran suggests using "candy," or explosives, to torch the rest of the cars. They’re not gonna let us push these cars in, but they’re certainly not gonna let anyone fuckin’ stop us.” “The cops are OK with whatever the fuck we do. “ has Mayor fuckin’ Daley in his pocket,” Glimco boasts. The Teamsters plan to retaliate by pushing their cabs into the Chicago River.
The problem, Glimco explains, is that the Seafarers Union is signing up cabbies. The next day, Sheeran flies to Chicago, where he meets Teamsters local president and Outfit racketeer Joe Glimco in a Russian bathhouse. “I also do my own carpentry” - meaning he cleans up the crime scenes. “I heard you paint houses,” Hoffa, played by Al Pacino, says to Sheeran, played by Robert DeNiro - meaning he’s heard that Sheeran does hits at victims' homes. Bufalino knew just the guy: his hit man, Frank Sheeran. So, according to the film, Hoffa called Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, the cousin of his personal attorney. He needed some muscle to keep the cabbies in line. In the early 1960s, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa was having a little trouble with a rival union luring away cabdrivers here. One of the most important scenes in The Irishman takes place in Chicago - and unlike most of the movie, it actually happened. This post contains spoilers for The Irishman.
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