Bob Hasegawa is a longtime labor and social justice activist from Seattle. Hasegawa has been the Washington State Representative for the 11th Legislative District, Position 2, since 2005. His District includes Renton, Tukwila, and parts of Beacon Hill, where he has been a lifelong resident. He is retired from the Teamsters Union where he was a member and union leader for over 32 years. He was elected head of Teamsters Local 174, the largest Teamsters trucking local workers union in the Pacific Northwest, for three terms (9 years), and was also a leader in the national Teamsters pro-union democracy reform movement, TDU (Teamsters for a Democratic Union). He was the first Asian American to run for International Vice President of the Teamsters Union, in 2001.