From the bridges of Charlestown to every barn, dock, terminal, and studio lot in New England — one local, one standard, one fight. Boston is a union town, and Local 25 sets the bar.
That's the whole mission, stitched on the patch and carried into every grievance panel, every organizing drive, and every bargaining table. Everything this slate does gets measured against those three words.
Aggressive contract enforcement, fast grievance handling, stewards trained and backed on every job. Health, welfare, and pension security treated as untouchable — no givebacks dressed up as progress.
Local 25 built the strongest freight, movie, trade-show, and delivery standards in New England. What generations fought for doesn't get bargained away on our watch.
Organize the unorganized — warehousing, production, and the new regulated industries coming to Massachusetts. Bring the next generation in with a seat at the table, not a look through the window.
Five values, straight from the barn floor. Every position we take traces back to one of these.
Irish, American, Puerto Rican — the patch is the point. This local wins because it looks like Boston: every neighborhood, every language, every generation. One card, one contract, one union. An injury to one is an injury to all, and we mean it on every picket line in the market.
Members vote, and the vote is final. Bargaining committees come from the shop floor, negotiations stay transparent, and no contract gets implemented over the members' no vote. The hall belongs to the people who pay the dues.
Calls get returned. Grievances get filed on time and fought hard. Business agents show up at the barn, on the dock, and on the lot — not just at election time. Representation is a service, and the standard for it is the same standard we demand from employers: excellence, every day.
Every nonunion operator undercutting Teamster standards is a threat to every member's paycheck. Organizing is defense. New shops under contract raise the floor for the whole market — in freight, in film and trade shows, in warehousing, and in the new industries where Massachusetts workers deserve Teamster standards from day one.
We inherited a local that employers respect because it will walk when it has to. We keep it that way: hardship support in place, picket infrastructure organized, and a credible strike threat behind every table — because that's what wins contracts without a strike.
Local 25 is where General President Sean O'Brien came up — a fourth-generation Boston Teamster who joined this local as a young man, led it as its president, and took the fight he learned here to all 1.3 million members of the International. The militancy, the contract democracy, the strike-readiness that now define the Teamsters nationally were forged in this hall first.
Re-elected alongside General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman in June 2026, the General President laid a foundation this slate is proud to stand on: grow the union, back the members, and never let a contract be forced on people who voted it down. Hatch–Alvarado isn't a departure from that legacy — it's the Charlestown chapter of it, carried forward.
Boston's Teamsters have never waited for a fight to come to them — and this campaign doesn't either. The next chapter gets written by members: at the barn meetings where the priorities get set, on the job sites where the standard gets enforced, and in the new industries where the next generation of Teamsters is waiting to be organized. Warehousing and logistics. Movie and trade-show work. Massachusetts' new regulated industries, where Teamster standards belong from day one.
The Hatch–Alvarado slate isn't asking you to watch a campaign — we are asking you to be one. Bring your questions from the barn. Bring your brothers and sisters to the union hall. Bring the fight forward. This local made the East respect it. Members keep it that way.
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