Training Trust
THE ALASKA TEAMSTER-EMPLOYER SERVICE TRAINING TRUST (ATESTT)
The Training Trust employs a full-time training staff dedicated to serving the membership with access to quality; pertinent, equitable and timely training; and up-to-date, vocationally oriented training programs. Courses offered include hazardous material handling, commercial drivers' licensing, computers, first aid, computer electronics, commercial truck driving, and a number of other classes/training.
To receive training through the Training Trust, you must have worked 400 hours through an employer who contributed to the Training Trust through a Collective Bargaining Agreement within the past 24-month period, or have a firm offer of employment from a participating Employer.
The Trust is administered by a joint Board of Trustees. The Board is comprised of an equal number of Employer representatives and employee (Union) representatives.
If you have any questions about your eligibility for training or the courses offered, please contact your ATESTT office at (907) 278-3674 in Anchorage or (907) 479-8451 in Fairbanks. You can also visit the Training Trust's (ATESTT) website at: http://www.akteamsterstraining.com.
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Effective November 1, 2009, all Teamster members will be charged book/certificate fees to attend specific Teamster Training Center classes. (Please click here to view the fee schedule)
Rick Boyles
Secretary-Treasurer
Events and Meetings
- 29th Annual Retirees Reunion The Alaska Teamsters 29th Annual Retirees Reunion is being held February 27th through March 1st in 2012.
- Membership Meeting Schedule
Monthly:
Anchorage:
February 2, 2012Fairbanks:
February 7, 2012Quarterly:
Clear - TBD
Healy - TBD
Kenai - TBD
Kodiak - TBD
Juneau - TBD
Valdez - TBD
Current News
- Teamsters Press Unionization Of Toll Drivers The Teamsters Union, as part of its national strategy to organize harbor truck drivers, has taken on Toll Global Forwarding, charging that the company is using national labor law to delay a vote among drivers to join the union.
- Bus Drivers For Alameda County Special Needs Kids Speak Out About Safety, Low Wages Bus drivers who transport special needs students in Alameda County spoke out Thursday about safety concerns, low wages and lack of benefits.
- School Bus Drivers Speak Out About Safety, Human Rights Concerns School bus drivers with Durham School Services in Hayward and Livermore, Calif., joined today with Teamster, political, religious and other community leaders at a "Driver Speak Out" to demand better working conditions.
- Teamsters Warn Hostess Not To Misuse Bankruptcy Process The Teamsters Union on Thursday warned Hostess Brands Inc. not to misuse the bankruptcy process in an attempt to bully its way to unnecessary operations changes, saying a consensual resolution with sacrifices by all stakeholders is what is required.
- Correctional Officers Say For-Profit Prisons Won't Save Money Turning prison facilities over to for-profit companies won't save Florida taxpayers any money and will probably cost them more, said Teamster correctional officers, their families, their neighbors and union officials who came to the Statehouse Monday.
- Labor Radio Program Interviews Jim Hoffa Teamster Rick Smith of the Rick Smith radio show interviews General President Hoffa about working families, stopping the war on workers and more.
- BLET Engineers Ratify Amtrak Contract Today, Amtrak engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a division of the Teamsters Rail Conference, ratified by a 4 to 1 margin a new, five-year agreement. The contract calls for wage, benefit and work rule improvements.
- Hunts Point Market Teamsters Overwhelmingly Ratify New Three-Year Agreement Today, workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market represented by Teamsters Local 202 in the Bronx, overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new three-year agreement that provides financial security and affordable health care for the nearly 1,300 members and their families.
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