SPRING 2009 - Teamsters Local 25

Educating Tomorrow’s Workers
Steven R. Sullivan, Recording Secretary
Local 25 Organizing Director, UPS
Steward Speak With Students
On March 4, 2009 Teamsters Local 25 Director of
Organizing Steven Sullivan and UPS Somerville Steward
Jim Donovan went back to school to educate future
workers about their rights.
Sullivan and Donovan made a series of presentations
to more than 160 freshmen and sophomores at
Shawsheen Valley Technical School in Billerica,
Massachusetts.
The pair informed the students about their rights on
the job, did a demonstration on the power of collective
bargaining and gave a brief history of Teamsters Local 25.
“I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk to these students,”
Donovan said. “These kids were excited and they
engaged us in good conversation about the union.”
Through the leadership of Teamsters Local 25
President Sean M. O’Brien and Charles Lyons,
Superintendent-Director of Shawsheen Valley Technical
School, the school presentations were the beginning of a
long partnership.
“We hope to be able to start a commercial drivers
license program on the campus this summer,” O’Brien
said. “We also would like to explore the idea of a diesel
engine repair course at Shawsheen in the near future.”
A special “thank you” goes out to Christine Shaw,
David Norkiewicz, Gary Baker, John Chapman, all of
Shawsheen Tech, for allowing Teamsters Local 25 to visit
with their students.
Jim Donovan, UPS Somervlle Steward
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