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Teamsters Rally for Workers' Rights; Join in 'Hollywood From The Docks' March

Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:44pm EDT
Jim Hoffa to Speak and Lead Teamsters in March

SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters General President
Jim Hoffa and other Teamster leaders will hold a rally for workers' rights on
Thursday, April 17, at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California. The
rally is part of the "The March From Hollywood To The Docks" three-day event
that will highlight the struggle of hundreds of thousands of workers fighting
to support their families and protect their jobs in an uncertain economy.
    The Teamster rally will include thousands of members, speeches from Hoffa
and other Teamster leaders, City Councilwoman Janice Hahn and other Union
officials from the United Farm Workers and Unite Here.
    The rally will end with more than 100 Teamsters on motorcycles leading the
contingent to the main rally at the port, where the march will end. Hoffa will
be among the speakers at the main rally that starts at 6 p.m. Hoffa is
tentatively slated to speak at that rally at 7 p.m.
    WHO:     Teamster General President Jim Hoffa
             Teamster International Vice Presidents Jim Santangelo, Al Hobart,
             Chuck Mack and Randy Cammack
             Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn
             United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez
             Unite Here President Bruce Raynor
             Teamster representatives from various industries

    WHAT:    Teamster Rally For Workers' Rights

    WHEN:    Thursday, April 17, 2008
             The rally starts at 3:30 p.m. The official program will start
             around 4 p.m.

    WHERE:   950 Sampson Way, Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro

    VISUALS: Teamsters carrying signs, Teamster trucks, Teamster motorcyclists

SOURCE   International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Galen Munroe of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-439-7427,
gmunroe@teamster.org



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