Teamsters Local 223 Archives

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

Tootie Smith pledges to shine a light on union tactics until her dying days.

Teamsters think it was Bernard who put the existing contract out for competition.

American Red Cross is pushing to lower wages for members of Oregon Nurses Association