Your Executive Board Officers are:

ATU, Local 265 Administrative Office Staff are IRENE ROMERO, KATHERINE EVANS and CYNTHIA MARTINEZ.

The Union Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. to Noon, and again at 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. There are Union Officers on duty.

The Membership Meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m. at the Union Office located at, 1590 La Pradera Drive, in Campbell.

The basic dues (effective January 1, 2010) are $74.56 per month, taken out by a deduction from the first paycheck of each month. The initiation fee is $150, which is deducted in monthly installments. When voted by the membership, there are automatic assessments for all costs associated with arbitration. $5.00 for the general fund assessment. When there is a death of a Brother or a Sister member, the Union collects a death assessment of $5 (per deceased member) from each active member.

Monthly Union Dues include basic dues, initiation payments (if new hire), arbitration assessments, general fund assessment and death assessments, which are deducted in one (1) lump sum. If you have any questions regarding the amount of the deductions, please feel free to call our office at (408) 874-0900 and speak with Katherine Evans.

Be sure to check with us if the International Union has not sent your Working Card and Membership Certificate within thirty (30) days.

YOU, as a member of Local 265, have some responsibilities to the Union. These consist of:

• Keeping the Union Office informed of your current address and telephone number.
• If, for some reason, your Union Dues are not deducted from your paycheck, it is your responsibility to inform the Union and make payment arrangements, so as not to accrue any arrearages of back Union Dues.
• At any time that you have a grievance, speak with your Shop Steward first, then write your claim, in detail, on a Contract Claim Form and either give it to your Shop Steward or deliver it to our Office via hand delivery or mail.  GRIEVANCES ARE NOT ACCEPTED BY EITHER FAX OR E-MAIL.
• Make it your responsibility to know your Shop Steward.