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Organize@Work

Organize Your Workplace

Do you live in the Puget Sound Region and work in a non-union workplace?

If your answer is yes, then you've come to the right place.

Teamsters Local 117 serves 16,000 members throughout the Puget Sound Region and Washington State. Our members enjoy wages, benefits and job protections that are leading the way in our region.

Our members work in all kinds of jobs, from blue-collar warehouse and trucking to white collar professionals and law enforcement professionals. Teamsters Local 117 has the experience to effectively represent a diverse work force.



Can Your Workplace Be Organized?

Take this quick assessment to see if your workplace can benefit from Union representation.

1. Does your employer sometimes promote employees based upon whom they know rather than what they do?

Yes
No
Sometimes

2. Does your employer ever require that you work mandatory overtime on short notice?
Yes
No
Sometimes

3. Does your employer give you more responsibility without an increase in pay?
Yes
No
Sometimes


4. Do you get regular wage increases that reward you for the true value of your work?

Yes
No
Sometimes

5. Do you pay a premium for your health insurance?
Yes
No

6. Do you pay extra to put your dependents on your health insurance?
Yes
No

7. Are people disciplined or fired at your workplace for little or no reason?
Yes
No
Sometimes

8. Are you working too many hours?
Yes
No
Sometimes

9. Do you feel that you have a career path and a future in your current job?
Yes
No
Not sure


10. Do you feel that your ideas are listened to and valued by your employer?

Yes
No
Sometimes

Score the Quiz


Contact a Teamster Organizer...

Bringing new workplaces the benefits of Teamsters representation is something we do on a daily basis.

Our Organizing Department works with you to tailor an organizing campaign that will give you the greatest chance of success in achieving your goals.

Teamsters 117 contracts can make your workplace a better place. Our negotiators work with you to tailor a contract to solve the issues you face on a daily basis.

For more information, contact Leonard Smith at 206-441-4860 extension 1237, toll free at 1-888-872-3489, by e-mail at Leonard.smith@teamsters117.org, or by filling out and submitting our organizing Web form.







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