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What's New at Local 120

May General Membership Meeting

Teamsters Local 120 had 2 special guests at the May General Membership meeting held on May 19th at 10:00 am. Former IBT General Secretary -Treasurer Tom Keegel and International Brotherhood of Teamsters Director of Organizing Jeff Farmer. Their knowledge and experience was an inspiration to our membership.

We would like to thank these great leaders for joining us today.

1934 Minnesota Teamster Strike

http://www.teamster.org/history/teamster-history/1934

Today marks the 79th anniversary of the Teamsters Union 1934 strike that is historic for all Labor Unions.

Stewards Seminar Held in Blaine

Teamsters Local 120 would like to thank all of the Stewards who turned out for the 2013 seminar. We did some new and exciting things this year. The photos you are seeing are from the "Case Studies" portion of our training where we took real life situations and applied them to what we do. It was a great event with over 100 Stewards attending.

Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreements Covering 250,000 Workers At UPS, UPS Freight

Get new updates on UPS and UPS Freight 2013 Negotiations, here: http://www.teamster.org/UPS

Tell ALEC Members They're Not OK

ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is bringing its anti-worker agenda to Oklahoma City on May 2-3 at its “Spring Task Force Summit.” At the summit, corporations, political contributors and state lawmakers will meet behind closed doors. The corporations will give lawmakers copies of the legislation they want to empower CEOs and billionaires while undermining democracy, weakening workers’ rights, eradicating public education and eliminating environmental and consumer protections.

Lawmakers will leave Oklahoma City with the corporate proposals in hand. They will introduce them in statehouses across the country as their own. They will not reveal corporations drafted the bills.

Corporations such as Koch Industries fund almost all of ALEC’s operations and are equal members to state legislators. They sit on all nine ALEC task forces. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law.

Sign the petition today to say that you are committed to telling your union brothers and sisters, family, neighbors and friends about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and that you are also committed to joining the action against ALEC in Oklahoma City on May 2-3 or raising your voice against ALEC on Facebook and Twitter on those days!

Sign The Petition to Keep Knives off Planes

Please sign the petition to tell the Transportation Security Administration that their proposal to lift the ban on certain knives aboard planes is ill-conceived and dangerous. This proposal would put Teamster members who work in the aviation industry – flight attendants, pilots, and other airline employees – more at risk, as well as the general public. Not all flights have air marshals on board, nor are all pilots armed. While pilots now fly behind reinforced cabin doors, flight attendants have little protection from knife-wielding passengers wanting to do harm. Self-defense training for flight attendants is still voluntary, and some air carriers do not take the initiative to provide this training. This all adds up to a potential volatile situation in the airplane cabin.

Flight attendants have a tough enough job as it is, and are already confronting disorderly passengers on a regular basis. We shouldn’t be adding knives to the equation. Please sign the petition today!

Injured Police Officer/Retired Marine

Monday March 11, 2013, 2:04 PM

Evansville Police Department

Injured Officer / Retired Marine nominated for mobility van contest

Evansville Police Department’s Crime Analyst Curt Todd has been entered in a competition to win a new mobility van. For those not familiar with Curt, he was hired on to EPD in 1992 and became disabled from a serious spinal cord injury incurred on duty in 1995 assisting EFD on a run aiding an elderly female in need of extrication. He was entered in the contest as an Evansville Local Hero. There is an excellent 2 minute video on the voting link summarizing why we feel he is a deserving Local Hero.

Nominees may receive votes from same person each day it is not a one vote per person contest.

If you click the link and it says “You’ve already voted today” that only means someone already voted from that internet account that day, try another one such as your smart phone or home computer! If you get the Already Voted notice you can still play the brief video, it’s quite good.Voting ends midnight May 10th.
Make it part of your daily internet routine on your home computer and on your smart phone!

Feel free to use the social media icons at the bottom of the voting page to share the link to your social media pages!

http://www.mobilityawarenessmonth.com/entrant/curt-todd-evansville-indiana/

Sent by Evansville Police Department
15 NW Martin Luther King BLVD, Evansville, IN 47708

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Hoffa Denounces TSA Decision

http://www.teamster.org/content/hoffa-denounces-tsa-decision-allow-knives-aircraft-cabin-letter-administrator

Download:

CAPA TSA letter 030813.pdf

Franklin Family Services

http://www.franklinfamilyservices.com Follow this link to the companies website.

Download:

Franklin Family Counseling.pdf

South Dakota McGovern Day Dinner

The South Dakota McGovern Day Dinner was a well attended event this year. Teamsters Local 120 had 24 Members/Political Activists attend. We would like to thank our local 120 delagation for making this such a fun and exciting event. Please see our pictures with Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Senator Tim Johnson on our image flash rotator.

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