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Alameda County

District Attorney
Terry Wiley

Board of Supervisors Dist. 3
Rebecca Kaplan

City of Hayward 

Mayor

City Council

City Council

City Council

HARD Board of Directors
  

Mark Salinas

Julie Roche

Dan Goldstein

George Syrop

Sara Lamin

City of Oakland 

Mayor (ranked choice)

 

City Council District 4

City Council District 6

Measure Y-Oakland Zoo
  

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Contra Costa County

Board of Supervisors Dist. 4 
Ken Carlson

Concord

City Council District 3

City Council District 5
 

Dominic Aliano

Tim McGallian

Martinez

Mayor

City Council

 
 

Mark Ross

Jay Howard

 

Mount Diablo Unified School District

Area 1

Area 2

Area 4

 
Debra Mason

Linda Mayo

Cherise Khaund

Orinda City Council
Latika Malkani

Pinole City Council
Pete Murray

Pittsburg

City Council

City Council
 

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Fresno County

Board of Supervisors Dist. 4 
Jose Antonio Ramirez

Sheriff
Mark Salazar

City of Fresno
 

City Council Dist. 1 
Annalisa Perea

City Council Dist. 3 
Miguel Arias

City Council Dist. 5 
Luis Chavez

City Council Dist. 7 
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It’s time to apply for a JC7 scholarship

If you have a child who is graduating from high school this year and can use some extra cash for college or vocational school, now is the time to have them apply for a Harry Polland/Bob Morales Joint Council 7 Scholarship.

Joint Council 7 is pleased to announce the Annual Teamsters Joint Council 7 Harry Polland/Bob Morales Scholarship Fund. This program will provide $1,000 to the child of one member in each of the following affiliated Local Unions: 70,

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Sacramento Rally — Taking UPS to the streets (and the Capitol)

How would you feel if, one day in January, you opened your pay stub and saw that your wages were cut by up to $6/hour? You’d probably be angry, wondering how a company that’s been going gangbusters since the start of the pandemic and has recently raised its prices to customers could do this to you. That’s just what happened to about 4,000 part-time workers at UPS—most at big-city hubs where the cost of living is highest,

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Nine for nine in beating back Amazon

In September, 2021, Joint Council 7 launched our campaign challenging Amazon’s rapid expansion plans in the Bay Area. In particular, we set our sights on the company’s plans to build a giant distribution center in San Francisco on property purchased from one of Teamster Local 350’s largest employers, Recology. This project directly threatened 1,400 Teamster Local 2785 members at UPS.

Our campaign won on March 22 when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed legislation imposing interim zoning controls on that project and on all parcel delivery stations in San Francisco for the next 18 months. 

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Looking for a contract, Local chases down AAA in Utah

In June 2021, more than 400 AAA insurance agents organized with Teamsters Local 665 in a hard-fought campaign that covered 77 separate locations from Merced up to the Oregon border.  Nine months later, these workers still don’t have a contract and AAA recently proposed a 40% wage reduction. 

For the past 30 years, AAA has held its annual membership meeting in Walnut Creek or San Francisco, but this year, the company took the unprecedented step of moving the meeting to Farmington,

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After pandemic delay, great contract for liquor salespeople

It may have taken over a year and a half, but the thousands of members across California who do sales for Southern Glazer Wine & Spirits & RNDC (formerly known as Young’s Market) ratified their richest contract to date. Local 853 alone has about 684 workers under this contract who received huge wage increases, full maintenance of benefits on their health and welfare, additional holidays, and more.

Business Rep Steve Beck was quick to acknowledge that the bargaining committee,

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