Why Teamsters Need to be Involved

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	1.		Unionized labor has shrunk as an overall percentage of the workforce.

	2.		Young people are the future workforce.

	3.		The future workforce is the future membership of union.

	4.		This future workforce needs to be informed and educated about the importance of unions.

	5.		Currently young people have limited opportunities to hear about worker rights and responsibilities, collective bargaining skills and unions.

	6.		Schools are an ideal forum for unions to become involved with young people.

	7.		Involvement in school-to-work activities provide a forum for unions to inform and educate youth about unions

	8.		Union involvement in school-to-work can help young people and schools connect learning to real work environments through a variety of methods and activities (mentoring, job shadowing, internships, career fairs, etc.).

	9.		Young people who have an understanding and/or an exposure of union workplaces are more likely to be supportive of union goals when they are in the workforce.

	10.		Young people who are supportive of union goals are more likely to become union members and support union workplaces.