Media reports say that earlier this year, the Teamsters briefly employed a man whose image was synonymous with the infamous Unite the Right rally that brought White Supremacists to Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. The Teamsters hired Peter Cytanovic for an administrative job at the Union’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., before firing him during his probationary period, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The Union was apparently unaware of his past when he came onboard, the source added. More than seven years earlier, Cytanovic marched among neo-Nazis in the Alternative Right demonstration on the University of Virginia grounds. The dramatic Getty photo of a screaming, white-polo-clad Cytanovic - then 20 years old, his face lit by tiki torches - became perhaps the most iconic image from the rally. The Nazi rally ended up in the murder of an anti-racist protester. Teamsters Vice President At Large John Palmer has sent a letter to Teamsters International President Sean O'Brien, questioning why the Union would make such a hire and what the circumstances were at the time.

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