Political Action

Next Monthly Meetings
Anchorage	December 6, 2018
Fairbanks	December 4, 2018
Next Quarterly Meetings
Clear	TBD
Healy	TBD
Juneau	TBD
Kenai	TBD
Kodiak	TBD
Valdez	TBD

Meeting and location details…

Seattle Teamsters At Mt. View Cemetery Ratify Three-Year Contract
Industrial TradesHeadline News Local 117 Agreement Includes Higher Wages Cemetery workers at Mt. View cemetery near Seattle have ratified a new contract with Local 117. https://www.teamsters117.org/teamsters_at_mt_view_cemetery_celebrate_new_three_y...
Teamsters Weekly Updates, Ending December 7, 2018
Headline News Lawmakers Call for House to Investigate XPO after Workers’ Miscarriages : Ninety-seven members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into working conditions at XPO Logistics, which operates a Memphis warehouse that several women said was rife with pregnancy discrimination. Bus Monitors at First Student Westmont Ratify Contract […]
Teamsters: XPO Must Change Culture to Address Worker Mistreatment
WarehousePress Releases Promises of Policy Changes Must Become Actions at XPO Press Contact Galen Munroe Email: gmunroe@teamster.org Phone: (202) 624-6911 (WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters Union called on XPO Logistics, Inc. CEO Bradley Jacobs to formally acknowledge his company’s failure to address ongoing issues at its Memphis, Tenn. distribution center that include pregnancy discrimination, worker […]
Look for the GCC-IBT Label on Holiday Cards
Graphics CommunicationsHeadline News If your local union or company is planning to send out holiday cards this year, consider using one of the printers listed below. These companies employ members of the Graphic Communications Conference/Teamsters. Each of the firms on this list can print customized holiday cards (as well as a variety of other stationary […]
BLET Members Proud To Work Bush Funeral Train
RailHeadline News Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) are proudly working as crew members aboard the special Union Pacific funeral train for President George H.W. Bush today. The two funeral trains were helmed by BLET locomotive engineers as well as SMART TD conductors. The first train — UP locomotive 4141 — […]
Bus Monitors at First Student Westmont Ratify Contract with the Teamsters
Passenger TransportationPress Releases First Collective Bargaining Agreement Ratified Unanimously by Membership Press Contact Galen Munroe Email: gmunroe@teamster.org Phone: (202) 624-6911 (WESTMONT, Ill.) – School bus monitors working at First Student in Westmont, Ill. voted unanimously to ratify their first contract with Teamsters Local 777. The monitors voted overwhelmingly to join the Teamsters in April of […]
Sore Loser Lawmakers Are Undermining Democracy
Politics, it’s been noted famously, isn’t bean bag. It can be cutthroat and often feeds into the worst instincts of lawmakers elected to fulfill the will of the people. Unfortunately, the citizenry of several states are witnessing the misguided actions of their elected officials right now. Faced with prospect of reduced power in their respective […]
Hoffa: Legislature is Ditching Workers
General President's MessageHeadline News By Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa Published in the Detroit News, Dec. 5, 2018 Republicans in Lansing lost their full grip on state government last month. And now hardworking Michiganders are paying the price. Lawmakers, taking advantage of the last days of their stranglehold on the state capital during a […]