In 2015, we formed an advisory committee of members to make recommendations to our Executive Board about candidates for endorsement. Many Unions do not engage their membership on these decisions, but as a member-driven Union, we think this is incredibly important.

Así es como funciona nuestro proceso de aprobación:

• Each May, our Political Advisory Committee updates our candidate questionnaire.
• Candidates return their questionnaire and we schedule them for a 30-minute interview.
• In these interviews, we ask candidates questions about their plan to support working-family issues.
• Our committee makes decisions about which candidates to recommend to our full Executive Board and whether to recommend a campaign contribution.* 
• Recommendations are sent to our Executive Board which ultimately makes the final decision.

*Contributions to candidates ONLY come from our Teamsters 117 Working Families PAC – as a policy, we do not use dues dollars to make contributions to candidates.

En política, sólo tenemos asuntos permanentes, no tenemos amigos permanentes. Esto significa que necesitamos continuamente hacer responsables a los políticos por los votos que toman y asegurarnos de que los hacemos cumplir lo que dicen que van a hacer.

La única forma de hacerlo es que los miembros se involucren.

Interested in Getting Involved?

If you are interested in participating on our Statewide Political Advisory Committee, please contact our Political Director Samantha Grad at 206-794-9663 or via email [email protected].