Teamster dairy workers and lab technicians who work at the Darigold processing plants in Seattle and Issaquah and at the Darigold lab in Tukwila will take a final strike vote at meetings throughout the day on Saturday, July 9.

I want to share some good news. Effective today, July 1, 2016 all Teamsters who work at the DOC will receive a 4.3% increase.

Darigold production workers and lab technicians at the company’s Seattle and Issaquah milk processing plants left federal mediation today on the brink of a labor dispute.

Carl Beatty is a correctional officer at the Monroe Correctional Complex. He is also a Shop Steward and representative on the Steward Advisory Counsel (SAC).

Cheryl Miller is a classification counselor at Airway Heights Correction Center. She has been a Teamster for 11 years.

I’m a warehouseman at Lineage Logistics in Algona. We ship, pick, receive. Our product ranges from turkeys to fish to bread. A whole variety of commodities.

Our Teamsters Union is a democratic institution. Nowhere is that more apparent than at our International IBT convention.

I’m a Teamster driver at Estenson Logistics. We haul Darigold product throughout the West. I just became a Shop Steward in the last year. I got involved because I wanted to better our shop and to work for the members.

At the convention, division meetings take place covering all aspects of the work of our Union. IBT staff, Local Union staff and members discuss the successes and challenges that our Union has experienced.

At the Teamsters Convention, Teamster power and pride are everywhere you look. You see it in the streets, in the restaurants, and in the hotels - Teamster power T-Shirts, polos, buttons, stickers, placards, and pins.

New Local 117 members at Transdev spend their workdays helping others. They pick up our community’s most vulnerable residents – the elderly and disabled – and transport them to locations across King County. Now, a first-time Teamsters contract will give them the respect they deserve. Yesterday, the newly-organized group voted by an overwhelming margin to approve the contract.

Every five years, Teamsters from across the country gather for our International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) convention.

At the end of our negotiations session with the State over our DOC contract yesterday in Olympia, members of our bargaining team were disappointed and frustrated.

Local 117 members and staff spent the day at the Monroe Correctional Complex yesterday, talking with members about their concerns at work. We also talked about the ongoing DOC contract negotiations with the State.