A Union, State Unit 12, is nothing more than the
employees themselves, people joined together for
a common cause and for common interests. As with
any organization, people join together to have
strength. More strength than they can ever achieve
alone. State Unit 12 has only one reason for existence,
to protect and advance individual and collective
rights in Wages, Benefits, Hours of Work, and
Working Conditions, those matters involved solely
with the workplace and its effects on the employee
and their families.
The collective dues paid by all the employee
members provides the means to have the finest
legal, financial, political advocacy, and daily
representation needed and required to protect,
advance, and preserve the rights attained.
Join
Us - Membership Application
If you are not a member, we urge you to become
one. It’s a simple application. You may
download the application in pdf format by clicking
here. (This document requires Adobe ®
Reader ® to download and view. If you do not
have Adobe ® Reader ® you may download
it free.) Please complete the application
and return it by mail or FAX to any of the Local’s
Servicing Offices, or, the Central Office.
Fair Share Payers are
not Members
There may be a number of workers within the Unit
who pay a fee called “fair share”
and erroneously believe they are members of the
Union. “Fair share” is a fee for certain
services the Union is required by law to provide
to both Union members and non-union members alike.
The “fair share” is the amount charged
to the non-member to defray the costs of those
services required. “Fair-share” fee
payment does not constitute Union membership.
State Management continuously monitors and informs
us of the number of employees eligible to be members
and the total number who are members. They measure
the strength of the Union, in everything they
do, on what these numbers show. The more dues
paying members, the more employees are united.
That “there is strength in numbers”
is something the State Management fully understands
and reacts to.
We want and need YOU as a UNION member, we need
your name added to the strength we have. The benefits
are many, some of the specifics are:
Job Protection
As a member you have the full representation power
of the Union to protect and defend you in any
discipline, grievance, arbitration or other matter
that may occur in the workplace; by Union policy
non-members are not given representation in any
matter other than grievances. Hiring a private
attorney to represent you - in the simplest of
matters - will always cost a minimum of $1,500
to $2,000. In complicated cases, attorney fees
can run to $10,000 or more per case
Membership Life and
Accidental Death & Disability Insurance
As a member you will have an automatic $3,000
Life Insurance plus an additional $3,000 Accidental
Death or Disability Insurance Policy at no cost
to you in the event of your death or serious Accident.
Non-members are not eligible for this benefit.
Lawyer Referral Service
For non-work related legal problems, as a member
you have full access to the Union Lawyer Referral
Services- a panel of private attorneys provide
a free half-hour consultation and minor letter
writing, if necessary, and, if you proceed or
need defense in the legal action, the attorneys
charge at a considerable reduced hourly or fee
rate in your representation.
Only Members Have a
Right to Vote
Only members can attend union meetings; vote on
Local union officers, vote on how the Union should
be run, vote on what it should be trying to accomplish,
vote on what it shouldn’t be doing.
Only members can offer proposals for negotiations
for new contracts. Only members can vote on the
ratification of any new contract. Only members
have a say, a vote on what is happening to you
in your workplace, on your salaries, on your working
conditions, on your benefits. As a non-member
you don’t have any of these rights.
Union Leadership
As a member you qualify for election or appointment
as a Steward if you want to become actively engaged
in the Unit activities. As a member you qualify
for appointment on the Unit wide negotiating team,
the unit wide or departmental safety committees,
the Unit wide or departmental joint management-labor
committees, the Unit wide or departmental Apprenticeship
committees, on any committee that is formed or
activated. As a non-member you can’t.
Group
Insurance
As a member you are eligible to participate individually
(by payroll deduction) in Union
sponsored group insurance programs - such
as, life, long term disability, home owner, automobile,
cancer, catastrophic, home mortgage, etc.. Non-members
are not eligible for these group rates.
Credit
Union
As a member you are eligible for IUOE
Credit Union membership with assets in the
hundreds of millions of dollars. Checking, Savings,
Visa cards, auto, boat, motorcycle, recreational
vehicles, motor homes, trailers, mobile home loans,
home and personal loans, first mortgages on homes,
all at the UNION interest rates, the lowest to
be found anywhere.
Educational Reimbursement
As a member you are eligible for reimbursement
for tuition and books costs for classes you take
which are for the purpose of improving your job
skills or your job advancement. Annually, your
children are eligible to apply for college scholarships
that are awarded by the Locals. As a non-member
you are not.
The Most Important
As a member you have the right to participate
in and vote on all of the matters that affect
you and your family in your work place. It is
an important right, certainly, we feel it the
most important. We have, for members, a Discount
Ticket Packet for most of the major entertainment
facilities, for hotel and car rental, for other
major attractions. We are constantly researching
other benefits beyond these to hopefully provide
you and your family -legitimate “group discount”
purchasing power- in things like cars, tires,
furniture, sporting goods and the like. We will
add them as we are sure of their legitimacy. No
matter what it may be, Representation and Participation
will always remain the most important benefit.
We need your participation, your strength.
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