Coca Cola Annual Shoreline Clean-Up

Coca Cola staff and Teamsters 213 members came together for Coca Cola’s annual shoreline clean-up in Kamloops and Cranbrook.  After a BBQ and gifts the shoreline clean up got into full swing with several truck loads of garbage getting cleaned up.  Way to go!!!

Shop Steward Seminars

Shop Stewards traveled from across BC to attend our training seminars held in Vancouver and Kelowna.  This year’s training topics covered Duty of Fair Representation and the Supreme Court of Canada’s bottom line on Random Drug Testing.  Teamsters 213 Legal Department tested our Shop Stewards knowledge with an interactive exercise on a case scenario.  Thank … Read More

Kitimat Modernization Project

Over 100 Teamsters Local 213 members are working at Rio Tinto’s Kitimat Modernization Project and the backup
tunnel that will house another turbine for the aluminum smelter upgrade. The company is talking about doubling the
workforce and that will mean work for even more Teamsters.

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Coca-Cola Plants in B.C.

Hundreds of Teamster Local 213 members work at Coca-Cola plants in the province. The Teamsters working in
production, maintenance, merchandizing, warehousing and delivery at the production plant in Richmond prepare
30 flavours of products in over 80 different packages, which represents 11% of the total Coke products sold in
Canada.

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Remembering Gene Wirch

Gene Wirch, who served in several capacities within Teamsters Local 213, passed away on July 28, 2013. Gene joined the Teamsters in 1971 while working for Vancouver Magazine Services, represented by Local 351 at the time. He became a business agent in September 1986 and worked out of the Vancouver office until 1993. He then … Read More

History of IKEA Richmond Lockout

After 527 days the lockout of over 300 workers at IKEA in Richmond BC is over! Congratulations on standing tall Teamsters Local 213 Members!!!! Many significant events, some international, have taken place to support the cause of the locked out Teamsters Local 213 members. In November 2013, an international fact-finding commission from UNI Global Union … Read More

Rally to support locked out IKEA workers

RALLY! TO SUPPORT LOCKED OUT IKEA WORKERS SATURDAY JULY 20th 11AM TO 1PM 3320 JACOMBS ROAD, RICHMOND Contact Info: Anita Dawson, Business Representative 604-876-5213 Oranita@teamsters213.org