++Upcoming Shop Steward Meetings
Friday March 5th - 7-9pm at Kohlwes Education Center (Board Room) in Renton
Sunday March 14th - 6-8pm at Bellevue Regional Library (Room #3)
Shop Steward meeting dates for the rest of the year will be:
Sunday April 18th
Friday June 11th
Friday October 1st
Sunday November 7th
Sunday December 19th
Chief Steward:
Carrie Rolph (Public Services)
email: moc.liamg|kcudikik#moc.liamg|kcudikik
Shop Stewards:
Carol Ferguson (AU-AP-MU)
Don Isaacs (BE-CR-LH)
Robin Feiner (BE-CR-LH)
Wing Tang (BE-CR-LH)
Zina Stockinger (BO-KM-LF)
Judy Kistler (BP-BU-VA-WC)
Laura Ritter (CA-DU-SK-WL)
Andy Wickens (DM-EK-KT-WM)
Sadie Dolge (FC-NB-SN)
Jenifer Loomis (FC-NB-SN)
Deanna Gauthier (FR-SO-VV)
Rosalie Olds (FR-SO-VV)
Carla Ginnis (FW-F3)
Benjamin Resler (IS-SA)
Elizabeth Panni (IS-SA)
Dan Shaffer (KG-KL-RE)
Sarah Hunt (KG-KL-RE)
Steve Boyd (KG-KL-RE)
Catherine Reece (MI-NC-NW)
Rod Backman (RB-SH)
Anne Hansberry (SC - CMS)
Cindy Richardson (SC - CMS)
Charlie Sanders (SC - ITS)
Anna Seaberg (SC - CMS)
Susan Veltfort (SC - CMS)
Info for welcoming new-members.
What the Shop Steward Should Know and Teach:
Workplace Issues and How They Affect Employees:
Stay informed on issues affecting Union members by developing relations with your co-workers and listening to employee concerns. You can also keep informed on our local issues by reading our website (www. kclsvoice.org) and about issues affecting AFSCME membership across the country by reading union publications and by accessing the AFSCME website (www. afscme.org) on the Internet. Examples of such issues are contracting out, labor economics, and political and legislative issues. Share important information with your co-workers.
Communication:
Keep your co-workers informed of workplace issues that the Union is addressing through negotiations, our Labor/Management Committee, and other forums available to us. You are the primary source for information regarding the Local's activities. Keeping an up-to-date bulletin board at your workplace is vital to our effort.
Keep the Executive Board informed on issues and concerns raised in your workplace.
Inform new employees about the Union, our efforts, and our need to know about their workplace concerns. Give new employees appropriate Union documents, introduce them to co-workers, show them where the Union's bulletin board is and explain its value. Let them know that you're available to assist them.
The Contract:
A contract contains the wages, hours and working conditions agreed to by the Union and the Library Administration. It is the primary source of employee rights on the job.
Work Rules:
These may be found in such documents as the Library's policy and procedures manuals. Get to know them so you can ensure that the Administration is applying them fairly and equitably.
Union Structure:
Know the names of the Local's officers and stewards; any committees and the names of the committee chairs; the date, time and place of membership meetings; the phone number of Council 2's office; member benefits; and, services provided by the Local, Council 2 and the International Union.
Union Direction and Goals:
Be familiar with the Union's objectives (such as, preventing contracting out, passing legislation that helps workers, organizing new members, etc.); the Union's values (protecting a worker's right to respect and fair treatment on the job); and, the Union's mission (increasing on-the-job rights and protections, improving wages and working conditions and gaining new members).
