Teamsters Local 223 Archives

County commissioners voted Feb. 21 to end a decades-long relationship with MetroWest and go with American Medical Response starting July 1.

For the first time in decades, American Medical Response (AMR) has a chance to outbid anti-union Metro West.

Over 600 ambulance crew members are voting on a a tentative agreement that brings more predictable schedules, more paid time off and raises.

The crash is the latest evidence for what union-represented paramedics have described as growing public hostility toward ambulance workers.

Assaults on paramedics and EMTs have changed the nature of a job for workers who didn’t historically face on-the-job violence.

After 32 years as a union organizer, rep and officer, Teamsters Local 223 president Dave Tully, 61, retired on May 31.

Teamsters Local 223 president Dave Tully was elected in a contested roll call vote at the Sept. 27 delegate meeting.

The 600-member unit provides ambulance service to Multnomah and Clackamas counties in Oregon, and Clark and Cowlitz counties in Washington.

Commissioner Loretta Smith was the lone vote against a contract with AMR, opposed by Teamsters, that eliminates a method of limiting workload.

AMR provides ambulance service to four metro-area counties