Legislative Information

• Stronger workers' rights, including the right to organize a union without employer interference, to have a safe and healthful place to work, and to be protected from discrimination of any kind.
• Affordable health care for all.
• Fair trade policies that create and preserve good jobs and that bring up workers' conditions in other countries instead of lowering ours.
• Fair tax policies that make corporations and the rich pay their share.
• Benefits working people deserve, such as Social Security; Medicare, unemployment compensation, and workers' compensation.
• Better priorities for government programs, so that public funds are not used for corporate special interests but for good jobs, education, transportation, child care, public safety, housing ~ and protection of the environment we live in.

How You Can Get Involved

• Join other Teamsters in lobbying public officials. That may include taking part in rallies, demonstrations, petition campaigns, or visits to politicians in their offices. When members actively participate in lobbying campaigns, public officials take our views more seriously;
• Register and vote. Your steward can tell you how to register. Encourage your family; neighbors, and friends to register and vote, too.
• Take an active part in elections. During elections, Teamsters staff phone banks, canvass neighborhoods, and distribute campaign material to promote our priority issues and pro-labor candidates.
• Contribute to DRIVE. D.R.I.V.E. ( "Democratic Republican Independent Voter Education" ) is the Teamsters political action fund. By contributing $1 per week, you help give working people a voice in politics. Ask your steward how to sign up.