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“It’s important that we get the women working right away when they get out,” said Heather Kurtenbach, a formerly incarcerated business agent at Ironworkers Local 86 in Tukwila.

She later became a business agent and organizer for the Hollywood Teamsters local.

Over the next eight years, he was a business agent, contract director and publications editor for the Service Employees International Union.

Those opportunities are siphoning off potential UPS workers and creating more manual labor for those who remain, said Ross Kinson, a business agent for the local Teamsters.

So I’ve known how to navigate throughout all that, throughout my career as a rank-and-file member and as a business agent.