Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 399 Director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division Western Region Vice President
Lindsay Dougherty (born 1983 or 1984[1]) is an American labor leader. Since May 2022, she has been Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 399. In that capacity she represents more than 6500 Hollywood workers. Dougherty is also director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division and Western Region Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In all three positions, she is the first woman to hold the role.
As a teenager in 2001, Dougherty had her first job in the movie business as a background actor in the film 61*.[2] She subsequently worked in transportation.[2]
In 2006 Dougherty moved to Los Angeles and joined Local 399.[3] In 2014 she became a business agent for the local, and the next year an organizer.[3] In 2021, she served as the point person for the Teamsters’ negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).[3] The resulting contract secured a three-percent annual wage increase, as well as increased health and pension contributions.[3]
In November 2021, while Recording Secretary of Local 399, Dougherty was elected Western Region Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) on a slate with Sean O'Brien, in his successful campaign to become IBT President.[4] She assumed the role on March 22, 2022, when she was also appointed by O’Brien to be director of the Teamsters’ Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division.[5] In May 2022,[3] Dougherty was appointed Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 399; she was re-elected on an unopposed slate in September 2022.[6] In that capacity she represents more than 6500 Hollywood workers.[3] In all three positions, Dougherty is the first woman to hold the role.[2]
Dougherty’s sister, husband, father-in-law and stepson are all Teamsters as well.[1] She has a tattoo on her left arm of Jimmy Hoffa, who served as the president of the Teamsters from 1957 to 1971.[7]
