Get to Know Your Union
Here's what your union does for you:
- Negotiates and enforces the contract
- Settles your grievances
- Organizes
- Prepares necessary paperwork, insurance, etc.
- Keeps you informed, holds meetings, etc.
- Supports fair labor legislation
- Furnishes legal protection
- Acts in your interest with the community as well as with management
Here's where your union dues go:
- Rent, supplies and equipment
- Affiliation fees to AFL/CIO and Building Trades
- Salaries and expense of full-time representatives
- Printing, postage and education materials
- Labor board and arbitration expenses
- Costs incurred in disputes and other legal expenses
- Organizing expenses
- Negotiation expenses
- Per capita tax per International Market Recovery
- Scholarship for children of members
- Death Benefit and Good Standing Funds
Know that YOU are the union:
- Support your leadership by never doing anything that will lose respect for your union
- Judge your fellow workers by their actions, not by their color, creed or religion
- BE concerned with what is right, not who is right
- Practice as well as preach unionism
- Help your Union Brothers and Sisters
- Attend and participate in union meetings
- Support labor-endorsed candidates
- Vote
Know your Weingarten Rights:
Union members have the right to have a Union representative present during any investigatory meeting. To assert that right, the employee needs to inform the employer as follows:
"I believe this discussion could lead to my being disciplined. I therefore request that my Union representative be present to assist me at the meeting.
"I further request reasonable time to consult with my union representative regarding the subject and purpose of the meeting.
"Please consider this a continuing request; without representation, I shall not participate in the Discussion."
Work by The Golden Rule:
Union members should never serve their personal needs by sacrificing the welfare of others.