PETE BERRY
Recording Secretary · Teamsters Local 25
Elected officer, keeper of the local's records, and Training Director of the Teamsters Local 25 Training Center — Pete runs the programs that turn a CDL permit into a Teamster career.
Elected officer, keeper of the local's records, and Training Director of the Teamsters Local 25 Training Center — Pete runs the programs that turn a CDL permit into a Teamster career.
Pete Berry holds two jobs that don't make headlines but make the local run. As Recording Secretary — an elected officer of the Teamsters Local 25 Executive Board — he keeps the official records of the board and the membership: the minutes, the motions, the institutional memory of New England's largest Teamsters local. When members want to know what was decided and when, Pete's records are the answer.
And as Training Director of the Teamsters Local 25 Training Center in Tewksbury, he runs the other end of the pipeline: the place where Teamster careers begin. The Center's CDL Class A and Class B programs take members and applicants from a permit to a professional license — the credential that opens the door to the driving jobs this union built its name on. Application at the Union Hall, license, CDL permit, and DOT medical card in hand, and the road opens up.
That training mission is opportunity in its most concrete form. Every graduate is a worker who can step into a Teamster job with Teamster wages, Teamster benefits, and a Teamster pension — a career, not just a license. The union that fights for standards is the same union teaching people to meet them.
Pete's fingerprints are on the community side too — part of the crew behind the Autism Gala and the events that make Local 25 more than a bargaining agent. Board service spanning the transition from President O'Brien's era to President Mari's, records kept straight, and drivers trained by the class — that's the quiet work that keeps a loud union strong.
What the work looks like when the hall works for the members.
Directs the Teamsters Local 25 Training Center in Tewksbury — the local's own school for the trade, running CDL Class A and Class B programs with union instructors.
Every training cycle turns permits into commercial licenses and licenses into Teamster careers — the direct pipeline into the driving jobs that anchor this union.
As elected Recording Secretary, keeps the official minutes and records of the Executive Board and membership meetings — the paper trail that keeps the local accountable to its own decisions.
Part of the machinery behind the Local 25 Autism Gala and the community calendar that raises hundreds of thousands for families across Greater Boston.
Executive Board service spanning the handoff from President O'Brien to President Mari — continuity when the local needed it, records straight the whole way.
Two jobs, one mission: keep the local accountable and keep the careers coming.
Programs at the Tewksbury Training Center — apply at the Union Hall with your license, CDL permit, and DOT medical card.
Official minutes and records of the Executive Board and general membership meetings — the local's accountable memory.
The gala, the drives, and the calendar that makes Local 25 a family, not just a bargaining agent.
Interested in CDL training, have a question about the Training Center, or something for my radar — send it here and I'll follow up.
