Election season is upon us once again and your Locals have been hard at work these past couple months interviewing and vetting candidates to determine which ones will be supportive of Teamster issues. We’ve interviewed candidates running for positions as high as the US Senate down their local water board district and everything in between.

We talked to candidates about why they want the Teamsters to support them, what their views are on supporting Unions during contract negotiations,

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‘Tis the season to keep fighting. As you are all aware, Gov. Gavin Newsom showed his true colors with a late Friday night veto of AB 316, our proposed legislation that Autonomous Vehicles weighing more than 10,000 have a human safety operator. Are we angry and disappointed? Of course we are! But that just means we’ll fight even harder to ensure that we keep our streets safe and protect good freight driving jobs.

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The summer has come and gone, and we are moving full throttle ahead in Joint Council 7. We’ve started our endorsement process, and I’m proud, excited, and everything in between over how much enthusiasm and ownership each of our Locals have shown in making sure we have a voice in the political arena. These early relationships pay off in big ways for us in paving our future. We need to elect and support candidates that support workers,

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