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Join the Union, Join the fight! What's the Union do for you? You've all heard the Bull Shit! "What's the Union doing for me, why should I be a member?" and "I don't like the Union Steward so I'm getting out." Or the classic, "I ain't joining, they got to represent me anyways!" Well the facts are simple. The Union negotiates your pay and your benefits. We represent you when you're hurt or in trouble. We fight for better and safer working conditions. We give you job security through senority. The American Labor Movement brought you the forty hour workweek and overtime! Your Union gives you a loud and clear voice in in the halls of Congress and they listen because they know Union Members vote! Your Union gives you a voice in your workplace as well. You elect the officials that negotiate your contract with management, and when your contract is violated you have a Steward and a Collective Bargaining Process to insure that you are made whole for the violation. These are just some of the things that the Union does for you! If there was no Union in this shop do you honestly think you would be making your current wages? Take a look at the civil service payscales for their GS 4 workers (http://www.opm.gov/oca/07tables/html/gs.asp). If there were no Union, here is what you would be earning for doing the same work! To quote APWU Local President Tom Kelly; "The next time you wonder what the union does for you, take a look at the car you drive, the house you own, the standard of living you have, and realize that the union got these for you and that management is hell bent on driving your standard of living into the ground." What's the Union need from you? We need you to join and stay active. We also need you to help us sign-up new members! Attend union meetings, learn your contract and notify your Stewards of violations! You must be willing to bear witness against management when the time comes. You have to keep up on political issues of the day and vote! Above all, stand beside your brother and sister union members when times get rough! Negotiating and enforcing your contract is an expensive and time consuming business. Your dues money is the only funding we have to keep and protect our Union and our contract. Every non-union member takes away from our ability to represent you to the best of our abilities. They are robbing you of not only your pay and your benefits, but of the strength and ability of your Union to represent you. Without a strong membership, we will never have the power and ability to negotiate and enforce our contract with management. The bottom line is, if you want the pay and benefits, you have to join the Union! Fraternally Bill Creamer Some more quotes "We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4, 1776 "We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Then join in hand brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." John Dickinson from The Liberty Song "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." Clarence Darrow "Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you." proverb from Madagascar "The boss don't listen when one guy squawks/ But he's gotta listen when the union talks." An old song |
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