INSTALLATION OF 2014-2016 OFFICERS (Jan. 16, 2014) —
Teamsters Local 70 Secretary-Treasurer Marty Frates,
standing at right, representing Teamsters Joint Council
7, swears in newly-elected Local 533 officers (standing,
left to right) Tim Renshaw, John Patterson, Gary Watson,
Debbie Calkins, Michael Sealy, Dana Elwell and Daleen
Smothers.
"Everything
they deal with is a negative trying to make a positive,"
Frates told the members in attendance.
"Have
you considered that whenever they are called, it's because
something is wrong?
"Work
together to make things better for everybody. Just remember,
it's a way of life, it's not a job."
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Marty
Frates
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Elected
Officers and Executive Board
Effective Jan. 1, 2014
Name
/ Position / Union Signatory Employer or Former Employer
Debbie Calkins, Secretary-Treasurer / Principal
Officer / UPS
Gary Watson, President / UPS/Luce & Son
Michael Sealy, Vice-President / First joined the
union in 1973
John Patterson, Recording Secretary / Reno-Tahoe
International Airport
Dana Elwell, Trustee / Model Dairy
Tim Renshaw, Trustee, Chugach
(support services) @ Naval Air Station-Fallon
Daleen
Smothers , Trustee, MV Transportation
First
woman Teamsters CEO re-elected to a new term
RENO
— The first woman to hold the top job at Teamsters
Local 533 has been re-elected to a second term.
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Debbie
Calkins
Secretary-Treasurer
& Principal Officer
She
is the first woman to head the union.
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Secretary-Treasurer
Debbie Calkins won an additional three years in office
in November, 2013. She was sworn in at the union's Jan.
16 general membership meeting, as was President Gary Watson,
also re-elected for another three years.
"Like our members, we weathered some tough times
during the extended recession, but the union has been
on a very sound financial footing for the past three years,"
Calkins reported at the meeting.
"We have been able to pay off our Gentry Way building
in Reno, further strengthening our financial position,"
she added.
Before election to the top post, Calkins worked as a feeder
driver at UPS. She has been a Teamsters member for 23
years and served as a shop steward for 22 years. Calkins,
her husband and a son reside in Sparks.
Watson has been employed by UPS and Luce & Sons in
his 17 years as a Teamsters member, during 13 of which
he served as a shop steward.
Business Agent and Organizer Michael Sealy, Sr., was elected
vice-president. He first joined the union in 1973.
John Patterson, who works at Reno Tahoe International
Airport, was elected recording secretary. Dana Elwell,
a longtime employee of Model Dairy, was re-elected to
another term as one of three trustees.
Daleen Smothers, a dispatcher for MV Transportation, the
contractor operating the Washoe County Regional Transportation
System, was elected as a new trustee, as was Tim Renshaw,
an employee of Chugach (support services) at Naval Air
Station-Fallon.
Elwell, Patterson, Renshaw and Smothers all serve as shop
stewards at their crafts.
Oakland, Calif., Teamsters Local 70 Secretary-Treasurer
Marty Frates swore in the new slate as he did in 2011.
Chartered in northern Nevada in 1934, Teamsters Local
533 averages about 2,000 members in a variety of businesses
and government agencies throughout northern Nevada, eastern
California and the Tahoe basin.
Among others, Local 533 represents workers at the following:
ABF
(freight)
Alsco Linen
Aramark
Associated General Contractors
Benefit Plan Administrators
Bimbo Bakeries
Cemex
Chugach (Naval Air Station-Fallon)
City of Fallon
EP Minerals
Farmer Brothers Coffee
First Transit (RTC Access formerly CitiLift formerly Elderport)
Keolis Transportation
Lanier Brugh
Model Dairy
MV Transportation (RTC/Citifare)
Reno Tahoe Airport Authority
Rillite Aggregrates
Sara Lee
Sheldons Pest
Sikorsky Aircraft
Southern Wine and Spirits
Sysco Foods
UPS and UPS Freight
US Foodservice
Waste Management
Wirtz Beverage
