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Our Mission

To unite into one labor organization all workers eligible for membership, regardless of religion, race, creed, color, national origin, age, physical disability or sex;

To engage in organizing unorganized employees to provide the benefit of unionism to all workers and to protect and preserve the benefits obtained for members of this organization;

To secure improved wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages through organization, negotiations and collective bargaining, through advancement of our standing in the community and in the labor movement through legal and economic means, and other lawful methods;

To provide educational advancement and training for employees, members and officers;

To safeguard, advance and promote the principle of free collective bargaining, the rights of workers, farmers and consumers, and the security and welfare of all the people by political, educational and other community activities;

To engage in cultural, civic, legislative, political, fraternal, educational, charitable, welfare, social and other activities which further the interests of this organization and its membership, directly or indirectly;

To provide assistance, financial, moral, or otherwise to other labor organization or other bodies having purposes and objectives in whole or in part similar or related to those of this organization;

To engage in community activities which will advance the interests of this organization and its members in the community and in the nation, directly or indirectly;

To protect and preserve the Union as an institution and to perform its legal contractual obligations;

To carry out the objectives of the International Union as an affiliate thereof; and its duties as such an affiliate;

To receive, manage, invest, expend or otherwise use the funds and property of this organization to carry out the duties and to achieve the objective set forth in these Bylaws and the International Constitution and for such additional purposes and objects not inconsistent therewith as will further the interests of this organization and its members, directly or indirectly;

It shall be our further object and purpose to encourage and assist our members in the acquisition of additional knowledge and information so they may better understand and pass judgment upon the matters and things which influence their lives and the affairs of this Union;

To encourage them to participate actively in the affairs of Government and of their communities;

To encourage them to participate actively in the affairs of this Union;

To instill in them the firm knowledge and belief that freedom and democracy cannot exist within this organization unless the will of the majority prevails over the will of the minority;

To require that every member recognizes his responsibility to this organization as an institution; and to require that our members refrain from conduct that would interfere with the performance of our legal or contractual obligations;

To the extent permitted by law, within the limits and the means and finances available to us, if authorized by a vote of the majority of members attending the meeting and within the scope of the authority conferred by such vote, this organization shall engage in political activities which tend to foster our welfare. This shall include, but shall not be limited to, the dissemination of information, views, opinions, suggestions and appeals to any and all persons by any means available concerning any candidate for public office or political issue.






Page Last Updated: Apr 13, 2015 (16:29:10)
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Teamsters Local 480
1050 Cornelia St
Nashville, TN 37217
  615-361-4900

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