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Teamsters Local 986

1198 Durfee Avenue
South El Monte, California 91733
Phone: 626-350-9860
Fax: 626-448-0986

BREAKING NEWS

Las Vegas Teamsters Merge into Local 986

2013-05-09 13:00:00

On May 9, 2013, the members of Teamsters Local 995 overwhelmingly voted in favor of merging into Teamsters Local 986 and creating the fourth largest local union in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Upon approval of the Joint Council 42 and International Union, Teamsters Local 986 will have over 17,000 members throughout California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Hawaii and Guam.

Teamsters Local 986 will make organizing new members a first priority in Las Vegas. The current office and staff will remain with Mike Magnani serving as a Coordinator of the Las Vegas office, while Bill Burgos, Debra Miller and Beverly Williams will continue as Business Representatives and Mark Ranger as the Business Representative/Organizer. Tony Sasso, Ed Rudd, Terra Butler, Jim Dunbar, Brian Vonderohe, Suzanne Baran will now serve as the advisory board in Las Vegas.

Teamsters Local 986 will now have an office in Las Vegas for all of our members at 300 Shadow Lane, Las Vegas, Nevada. The office hours are 9:00am-4:00pm from Monday through Friday.

 I want to welcome the proud and hard working members of the Teamsters in Las Vegas into Teamsters Local 986. Together, we will continue our mission to provide outstanding representation to our members by negotiating strong contracts and enforcing those agreements while organizing new members into this great union.” stated Chris Griswold Secretary-Treasurer.

Local 986 is sponsoring another blood drive for the City of Hope

2013-04-02 00:00:00

Chris Griswold
Teamsters Local 986

I want to thank all of the shop stewards who attended the seminar on March 23rd. Over 150 stewards from Local 986 in Southern and Central California participated in this event conducted by Arbitrator Lou Zigman. Stewards took the time from their weekend to learn new strategies and tactics to provide better representation for our members in the workplace. It is their dedication to their union and their co-workers that builds the foundation of a strong Teamsters Union.

Local 986 is sponsoring another blood drive for the City of Hope on Sunday, April 21st. The City of Hope is recognized worldwide for its compassionate patient care, innovative science and translational research, which rapidly turns laboratory breakthroughs into promising new therapies. For nearly 100 years, City of Hope’s pioneering research has brought the world closer to cures for many life-threatening diseases, from cancer to diabetes. Compassion drives their innovation. Every discovery they make and new treatment they develop gives patients the chance to live longer, better and more fully.

Teamsters Local 986 is proud to work with the City of Hope to provide life saving blood for their patients and to further their research to find a cure for cancer. There will be two bloodmobiles at the Local 986 Meeting Hall in South El Monte throughout the day. Any person who donates blood could win a $500 gift card from Costco and other great prizes that will be raffled at the end of the event. Please contact Connie at 626-350-9860 at extension 106 if you would like to participate in helping save a life.

The next quarterly meeting for our shop stewards and members in the Central Coast will be on Thursday April 25th at the Union Plaza at 6:30pm. We look forward to having another great turnout to hear from representatives of the California Highway Patrol. The meeting will cover a variety of subjects including new regulations for commercial drivers.

Special thanks to the IBT, JC42 and the stewards and members of local unions who have assisted in our recent hand-billing to initiate organizing campaigns from to help employees join the Teamsters Union. We have received calls from numerous employees and we will be meeting with them in the near future to help them become Teamsters!

Please remember to talk to your friends, relatives, neighbors and complete strangers about the importance of solidarity and joining a labor union. Local 986 is always looking to organize new members to assist them in obtaining better wages and benefits, protecting job security and safety. The rights of workers can only be protected and guaranteed with a union contract. Please contact Ron Seamans Jr., IBT Organizer at Local 986 with any organizing leads to help those workers without a contract.

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