As Teamsters, it is vital that we support strong and proven legislators like Tom Daly, who are willing to fight on behalf of working families and who are not afraid to stand up and become warriors against the "War on Workers" and have signed the Proclamation against this fall's deceptive "Paycheck Destruction" Initiative.

If you would like to get involved, call Jessica Chavez at (714) 740-6218 or e-mail at jchavez2952@aol.com or visit Tom Daly for Assembly at http://www.tomdalyforassembly.com/

Teamster Endorsements for
California June 5 Election
VOTE the Teamster Ticket!

             CONGRESS                          SENATE
               8     NO ENDORSEMENT                                   19    Hannah-Beth Jackson (D)
               23   NO ENDORSEMENT                                   21    NO ENDORSEMENT
               24   Lois Capps (D)                                       23    NO ENDORSEMENT
               25   Lee Rogers (D)                                      25    Carol Liu (D)
               26   No Action yet                                         27    Fran Pavley (D)
               27   Jude Chu (D)                                          29    NO ENDROSEMENT
               28   Adam Schiff (D)                                     31    Richard Roth (D)
               29   Tony Cardenas (D)                                33    Ricardo Lara (D)
               30   Brad Sherman (D)                                 35    Rod Wright (D)
               31   Pete Agilar (D)                                      37    Steve Young (D)
               32   Grace Napolitano (D)                             39    Marty Block (D)
               33   Henry Waxman (D)
               34   Xavier Becerra (D)
               35   Joe Baca, Sr. (D)
               36   Raul Ruiz (D)
               37   Karen Bass (D)
               38   Linda Sanchez (D)
               39   Jay Chen (D)
               40   Lucille Roybal-Allard (D)
               41   Mark Takano (D)
               42   NO ENDORSEMENT
               43   Maxine Waters (D)
               44   Laura Richardson (D)
               45   Sukhee Kang (D)
               46   Loretta Sanchez (D)
               47   Alan Lowenthal (D)
               48   NO ENDORSEMENT
               49   NO ENDORSEMENT
               50   NO ENDORSEMENT
               51   Denise Ducheny (D)
               52   NO RECOMMENDATION
               53   NO ENDORSEMENT
                                       ASSEMBLY
                   33     NO ENDORSEMENT                  56     NO ENDROSEMENT
                    34    NO ENDORSEMENT                  57     Rudy Bermudez (D)
                    35     NO ENDORSEMENT                  58     Tom Calderon (D)
                    36     NO ENDORSEMENT                  59     Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D)
                    37     Das Williams (D)                    60     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    38     NO ENDORSEMENT                  61     Jose Medina (D)
                   39     Richard Alarcon (D)              62     Steven Bradford (D)
                    40     NO ENDORSEMENT                  63     Anthony Rendon (D)
                    41     Michael Cacciotti (D)            64     Isadore Hall (D)
                            Chris Holden (D)                   65     OPEN
                    42     Mark Orozco (D)                   66     Al Muratsuchi (D)
                    43     Mike Gatto (D)                      67     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    44     NO ENDORSEMENT                  68     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    45     Bob Blumenfield (D)              69     Tom Daly (D)
                   46     Adrin nazarian (D)               70     Bonnie Lowenthal (D)
                    47     Joe Baca, Jr. (D)                   71     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    48     Roger Hernandez (D)           72    Joe Dovinh (D)
                    49     Edwin Chau (D)                     73     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    50     Torrie Osborn (D)                 74     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    51     Jimmy Gomez (D)                 75     NO ENDORSEMENT
                    52     Norma Torres (D)                 77     No Action Yet
                    53     John Perez (D)                     78     Toni Atkins (D)
                    54     Holly Mitchell (D)                  79     Sid Voorakkara (D)
                    55    Curt Hagman (R)                   80     Ben Hueso (D)

LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE
FOR THE JUNE 5TH PRIMARY IS
MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012

Help Make High-Speed Rail a Reality - StandUpforTrains.org
There is a national effort underway to see that High Speed Rail becomes a reality in America. High-speed rail has been moving passengers at speeds of up to 220 mph in other countries around the world since 1964, when it was inaugurated in Japan almost 50 years ago. France inaugurated its high speed rail system in 1981, and other countries in Europe and Asia have followed.

Now, we're fighting to make high speed rail a reality in America, starting in California, and you can help.

Go to StandUpForTrains.org. This site allows California residents to send an email in support of HSR to their State Senator and Assemblymember. This is critical, given the Assembly and State Senate will soon vote on the appropriation of $2.3 billion in rail bonds to begin construction of the first phase by the end of the year.

Additionally, StandUpforTrains.org provides a link for non-California residents to reach out to their members and friends in California to do the same.

HSR is pragmatic and fiscally conservative because it's a smart investment in the nation's future. HSR creates millions of jobs, revives our manufacturing sector, stimulates real estate development, and sets up America to save energy, money, and time - year after year. It delivers a fast and reliable transportation option, it protects the nation from energy price spikes, and increases national security by reducing our dependency on foreign oil.

Massive congestion is choking our major metropolitan areas, costing Americans $110 billion a year in lost productivity and wasted fuel. Los Angeles and San Francisco airports are at capacity. We must invest in a passenger rail alternative. The longer we wait, the less livable our cities will become and the more expensive the alternatives will be. The French and Japanese proved decades ago that the concept can succeed.

High-speed rail is successful and profitable everywhere else in the world, and it will work here. That's why today, the California High Speed Rail Authority approved the revised HSR Business Plan. Now we begin the campaign for the California State Assembly and Senate to approve funding.

California is leading the way for the rest of the country to develop high-speed rail by finding solutions to the many challenges faced in this kind of process. Rail projects throughout the country have already benefited from California's leadership. They will benefit even more when the project begins construction. Having the California Legislature vote "Yes" will be a major breakthrough for California - and for the whole country.

That is why it is so important that you get your friends in California to show their support, so that someday we can all have high-speed rail.

Please visit StandUpForTrains.org to get started and help us make high-speed rail a reality!

Thank you to all the Shop Stewards, speakers, guests that came out Saturday, April 21, 2012. We had a very educational day and appreciate everyone's participation.

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Equal Sacrifice or We Strike

Thousands of Teamsters across America work hard every day for Hostess bakeries. They've taken retirement and wage cuts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to keep Hostess afloat during a previous bankruptcy caused by mismanagement and greed.

Despite glaring evidence of continued management incompetence, Wall Street financiers that control Hostess allowed mismanagement to run amok and put Hostess into bankruptcy again.

Shortly before filing for a new bankruptcy, Hostess top executives gave themselves huge pay raises - the CEO got a 300% pay increase. And now they want workers to take even bigger cuts?

A strike may mean the end of the company, but if the courts and the lenders continue to tolerate mismanagement and self-dealing, and refuse to listen to the workers, Hostess is doomed already.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT http://www.hostessstrike.com/

Thanks to all who joined us Saturday at the the Boot Camp in El Monte. There were over 1400 Teamster Brothers and Sisters showing solidarity.

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PICTURES FROM THE EL MONTE BOOT CAMP

Teamsters rally against ballot initiative in El Monte
Text, summary and ballot language of the 'Stop Special Interest Money Now Act'
By Brian Day, SGVN

HANDOUTS FROM THE BOOT CAMP EVENT

UNION DIFFERENCES

SHOULD THE WEALTHIEST 1% BE THE ONLY VOICE IN POLITICS?

TOLL GROUP PORT TRUCK DRIVERS
in Los Angeles voted overwhelmingly
to join the Teamsters Union!
46 to 15

It is believed to be the first union election in port trucking
since deregulation of the industry and the subsequent
onslaught of illegal misclassification of port truck drivers
as "independent contractors" and
widespread denial of their employee rights.

Click here to read more.........

STOP THE CORPORATE POWER GRAB

Big Corporations want to Silence
Our Voice
Bad for Workers,
Small Businesses and
Communities

Click Here to Read the Facts.....

DURHAM SCHOOL BUS SERVICES
DRIVERS AND AIDES AT
SANTA ANA, LAGUNA AND IRVINE
OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TEAMSTERS YES!!!!
146 YES
21 NO
Total 167

Hoffa Praises Obama For Crackdown on Unfair Trade Practices
February 28, 2012
Statement of Teamsters General President

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Hall: We Are Stronger Together
February 28, 2012

ATTENTION TEAMSTERS!

WATCH SOME OF OUR LEGISLATORS
REGARDING CLEAN PORTS AND TEAMSTER ORGANIZING

NADLER CLEAN PORTS ACT
click onto Part 4

To schedule an appointment with the Pension field representative from the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust please call Local 952 at (714) 740-6200. A pension representative comes to Local 952 every Thursday of the month from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

If you wish to contact the pension department directly, please call
(866) 648-6878 or visit www.nwadmin.com.

TOLL GROUP PORT TRUCK DRIVERS in Los Angeles voted overwhelmingly to join the Teamsters Union!46 to 15

Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall StreetThe NationMarch 27, 2012

TOLL GROUP PORT TRUCK DRIVERS
in Los Angeles voted overwhelmingly
to join the Teamsters Union!
46 to 15

Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street
The Nation
March 27, 2012