Teamsters Make Impression at Job and Internship Fair

On October 5-6, the Teamsters Education Department took part in the George Mason University’s annual job and internship fair in Fairfax, Virginia.

The event, which was formally declared open by George Mason’s President Alan G. Merten, was attended by nearly three-thousand undergraduate and graduate students who swarmed the nearly two-hundred mostly employer booths to market themselves for the jobs of their choice. It was quite apparent that most students were attracted to the high-tech employers. However, because of students’ curiosity and their wide range of interests, no booth was left without patrons.

The Teamsters’ exhibit featured information on good union jobs in growth industries. Most of the students who visited the booth had never heard of the Teamsters and were curious to learn about whom the Teamsters really are. Students were shown statistics and information on the real difference between working union job versus working non-union. Various types of labor-related materials including information on union job openings were also displayed for the students to take away along with the novelty items.

The Teamsters was the only union represented at the fair. But the organizers expect that to change next year as the Teamsters demonstrated that unions and union industries present enormous opportunities for today’s young people.

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