After a year-long legislative battle, all of us at Local 856 have won a significant victory in our ongoing fight against outsourcing. The legislative win protects Teamster jobs by strengthening Buy America laws here in California. Buy America requirements protect good middle-class union jobs by preventing outsourcing and ensuring American tax-payer dollars are re-invested inRead More >
Posts Categorized: Secretary-Treasurer’s Update
Local 856 Members Show Strength in National Teamster Election: Sean O’Brien Elected General President; Peter Finn Elected Western Region VP
January 29, 2022
Local 856 members made their voices heard loud and clear across the country in the national Teamster election. In results that were certified in early December, Sean O’Brien was elected overwhelmingly as Teamster General President, and I am honored to have been elected on his team as a Western Region Vice President. Local 856 membersRead More >
Taking the Fight Against Outsourcing to the White House
July 27, 2021
Taking on the fight against outsourcing has long been a focus for us at Local 856. That fight continues and recently I met with Celeste Drake, the new Director of the Made in America Office at the White House. Among other things, in the meeting I stressed the importance to Teamsters members that American taxRead More >
Taking on Sutter at Eden Medical Center
February 18, 2021
In December, 140 Teamsters 856 frontline health care workers at Sutter Eden Medical Center, that include respiratory therapists, lab techs, imaging techs, and other Teamsters health care professionals, took to the streets, striking the hospital to demand fair treatment. The decision to strike was forced by Sutter Eden Medical Center’s lack of leadership at the upper management level that resulted in chronic understaffingRead More >
Stop Corporate Greed: Yes on 15 / No on 22
October 27, 2020
Election Day is one week away and it’s our opportunity to vote for pro-worker candidates and measures and defeat those that will undermine everything we’ve worked to accomplish. There are two very important propositions on the ballot that I am asking you as a Teamsters 856 member to pay close attention to. YES on PropRead More >