NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES

Are you being DENIED your rights given to you under the Collective Bargaining Agreement? Have you had a bona fide emergency or illness/injury that you have had to use Time Bank for? Has someone in Management told you that you had to bring in DOCUMENTATION or risk not being paid and getting an occurrence? Please understand that the contract states the company may ask for VERIFICATION and just like we ask our patients to verify their address and accept their word as the TRUTH when they verbally present it to us, we expect the Company believe it’s employee’s. Per the Contract, DOCUMENTATION; (Doctors certificate or other reasonable proof) is required after 3 days or more UNLESS the Company has a reason to DOUBT if the illness or injury is bona fide. So, Ask yourself are they asking you because they believe you or because they don’t?
You have a right to Union Representation when they are asking for proof, as it could lead to discipline.

Why We Need to Fight for the EFCA Now  !

With Congress heading towards the end of its session, and the chance of another vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) unlikely this year, locals may be asking: why we are doing a petition action now?
The answer is that we are gearing up for a huge fight early next year when a new President and Congress come to town. We are optimistic that the anti-worker environment that has characterized President Bush’s term in office will end, and the new President will be one that values and respects America’s middle class and its working families.
But, even with the possibility of a pro-worker President and Congress that may enact the Employee Free Choice Act, there are absolutely no guarantees. What is certain is that big business and their anti-union allies are unleashing anti-union campaigns, sending mass numbers of lobbyists to Capitol Hill to spread misinformation about the EFCA and working overtime to try and keep us down.

Unions are Gearing Up for the Fight
The petition action isn’t just taking place within the Steelworkers. This is a labor-wide push, with other unions across the country getting member’s signatures just like we are. Other non-union groups are also taking part in the action. It will take all of us to get this bill passed.
We’re Off to a Great Start
Nearly a hundred locals have already sent in petitions. The USW has always led the way on the Employee Free Choice Act, and we need to do so in this action as well.
If you’ve gotten all your members signed up, please sign up your family too. If the Employee Free Choice Act is passed into law, there will be benefits for all workers. Union members fight for wages, benefits and policies that set the standard for and improve the lives of all workers, union and non-union alike. Please take action today!  Print, sign and pass on the petition. Start HERE