Brother Ebert with newly organized Greenwood Lake Policemen.
Brother Ebert Named Business Agent
The Executive Board of Teamsters Local 445 voted unanimously in July to name longtime union member Jerry Ebert as Business Agent.
Brother Ebert will continue to hold his post as Director of Organizing. He was named Business Agent following the resignation of Ernest Romero.
Brother Ebert first started attending Local 445 Quarterly Meetings in 1963 at age 10 with his father Ray, a former organizer, Business Agent and Secretary-Treasurer of our Union. In those years when Ted Daley was our leader, the young Ebert met Jimmy Hoffa on one of Hoffa’s frequent visits to our Union Hall.
In 1978 Brother Ebert was named editor of our union newspaper. He helped his father organize St. Luke’s Hospital and Wakefern Foods. He was promoted to Organizer in 1985 by Al Schueler.. . In the nine years that followed, he organized the Sullivan County Public Employees, Hyde Park Nursing Home health care employees, the Dutchess Loop Transit Employees, several departments of public works, and with the help of former President Mike Marco and former Business Agent Joe Arnita, the West Point service employees.
In 1994 he left Local 445 to organize 1400 Catholic high school teachers in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey, and 950 asbestos removal workers throughout New Jersey. He taught union organizing for two semesters for the Cornell University Labor Studies Program, and edited three newspapers. He also helped begin the IBM organizing effort for the CWA, and worked with the International Teamsters on two campaigns in the Albany area.
Former Local 445 leader Douglas L. McCauley brought Brother Ebert back to our Union in 2006. Since then he has helped bring in more than 1400 new members, and has been an important contributor to our union’s extraordinary record of 26 organizing wins to only one defeat these past three years. He also participated in successful negotiating efforts at several workplaces.
He lives in Montgomery with his wife Jeanette and four children.
