Why Join The Union?

 

           What Are Your Rights Under the Law?  

 

           What Do Employers Say?

                                       

           Who Runs the Union?

                                                       

        

 

 

 

             

 

 

                                  

Why join the union ?

Our union members receive a fair wage that is negotiated by Local 351 and ratified by the members. Typically, union workers. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Why leave the decision of your yearly wage increase to someone whose responsibility it is to keep costs down? Why leave it up to someone who has no idea of your true value?

 

As a worker, you have a right under federal law to form a union, select representative of your choice and bargain collectively with your employer. This helps balance the power that an employer has over his/her individual employees.

 

Belonging to the union gives you rights under law that you do not have as and individual. Once you have successfully formed a union, your employer must bargain over your wages, hours and working conditions. 

 

 

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What are your rights under the law?

Even though the law protects your right to receive information regarding organizing your workplace, the union will keep confidential your request for that information. To explore the possibility of union representation in your workplace, it is important and necessary to discuss it with your co-workers. Remember, a majority of employees are interested, authorization of employees are interested, authorization cards are distributed for signatures. This gives the union the right to represent you and your co-workers. 

It is illegal to terminate an employee for joining a union. It is your right under the law to seek union representation.

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What do employers say?

Employers will say almost anything to keep you form joining a union. And, with good reason. If you have a union you have a voice in the decisions that affect you, your job and your family.

 

Your employer will try to tell you that unions cause everything from bad weather to economic destruction. 

 

The truth is, labor unions are a vital part of any democracy and that union membership is the only way employees have a voice in their workplace.

 

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Who runs the union?

Your employer will try to convince you that the union is some group of outsiders, trying to come in and dictate what goes on in the workplace.

The truth is, you and your co-workers are the union. You elect your officers and decide what you want your union to do by democratic process.