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Local 805 Membership meetings are suspended for the summer months of July and August 2008!

President Sandy Pope

Teamsters Local 805

"Barack Obama understands the challanges working people face every day"

Dear Local Union 805 Member:

This November we all need to vote for change in the White House. For the past eight long years we've put up with attacks against working people, a sagging economy and the skyrocketing cost of health care. Now is the time to vote for change, and that change will come with your vote for Barack Obama.

As our General President Jim Hoffa said recently, "Barack Obama understands the challenges working people face every day. He is the candidate in the best position to lead our movement to restore the American dream for working people in this country.

We don't need four more years of another politician who is in the same league as George W. Bush. We need a fresh start and a president who has an understanding of working class values……values that made this country strong.

Barack Obama has promised to renegotiate NAFTA and other deals that gave big business a reason to run out of our country and hire workers who will work for pennies.

I urge you to vote for Barack Obama on November 4, 2008. By electing Barack Obama we will take back the White House so that it will serve the people again. Barack Obama is change we can believe in.

Sincerely,

Alexandra Pope
President
Teamsters Local 805

James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund

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TEAMSTERS LOCAL 805 ENDORSED LEGISLATION AT APRIL MEMBERSHIP MEETING!

Washington, DC. John Conyers and other Members of Congress will take to the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday evening, June 10, to lead a discussion of HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation. HR 676 now has 90 co-sponsors in the House, more than any other health care bill.

HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system in the U.S. by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to every resident.

HR 676 would cover every person in the U. S. for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, chiropractic and long term care.

HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.

Co-sponsors and bill text are here:

SANDY POPE ON WNYC RADIO SHOW

Local 805 President Sandy Pope talks about efforts to unionize Fresh Direct's warehouse workers on New York Public Radio's Brian The Brian Lehrer Show.

NY DAILY NEWS
BY RACHEL MONAHAN Red Hook's working piers have a new lease on life - a 10-year lease, to be precise. The Port Authority has finally renewed shipping company's American Stevedoring International lease. RED HOOK'S ARTICLE:


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