Are you UNION? Who's who at DU:

[CanuckAmok]

on edit= hindsight tells me it migh not be appropriate to ask what someone's union affiliation might be.

Apologies! :hi:

[rucky]

1. UFCW

No need to apologize. Wouldn't have healthcare without 'em!

[Mr. McD]

2. Why not?

I belong to UPTE/CWA http://www.upte.org/

[Rocinante]

3. UAW

yeah they aren't much where I'm at but it beats the hell out of nothing. Edit actually my wife is in the union not me. But I feel like I am because of her.

[joshdawg]

4. CWA

[Not a robought]

5. Depends on what I'm doing

Sometimes I'm a supervisor/manager, and sometimes I'm doing a job that falls under the auspices of the Director's Guild. Although the guild isn't really recognized as a union, it operates like one.

[CanuckAmok]

6. Hey, I'm DGC! And a few others...

IATSE, ACFC, NABET. Depends on where I'm working...

[Not a robought]

12. Wow, what a coincidence

I'm hoping to be DGC on a film in Toronto that starts in a week. Wish me luck!

[JohnKleeb]

7. not a union member because I am too young and

they really dont have a union for what I did this summer but that said
I admire the union cause
the unions I most identify with are and I id with these because family members did these jobs
service employees for the longest time my dad waited tables
bricklayers- my grandfather is a retired career brick layer
miners- my great grandfathers were miners
steel workers- many uncles and had they been Clevelanders and near DK he would had saved their jobs. Also my late Uncle George would be so screwed over if he was still living, George Kovalcik was a WWII vet and a longtime employee of Bethelem Steel and would have had a lot of his services cut in half and with Bethelem would have lost more than a lot think.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

24. AFL-CIO is starting an organization non-union workers can join

I just read about it yesterday, and I'm still trying to find the details. Since it's impossible for a lot of workers to get official union representation on the job, they've come up with a group for those people (like me) who can't get a union but support unionization. I'll make sure I post when I can get more info.

[JohnKleeb]

43. bloody good

:) thanks WCTV
Sweeney for Labor Secretary I bet you can see that in a labor friendly adminstration
You know labor is one of my big issues. I would love to join this. *lightbulb* I got an idea for my school just popped in now, a student's union :).
Imagine John H Kleeb, SU president, Students Union
lol ok on a serious note, I think a union head or Kucinich or Gephardt would make an excellent labor secretary.

[REP]

8. TIU

affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

[Cheswick2.0]

9. AEA

Actors Equity and damn proud to be associated with the AFL-CIO

[HEyHEY]

10. Was CUPE!

Until about a week ago, took a job in my field.

[ashurbanippal]

11. Blue

I'm Europe affiliated!!

[Name removed]

13. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[REP]

14. Wrong Thread

Try again. And *yawn*

[TheZoo]

15. I think you mean "Wrong Site"

The boy's been posting the same thing over several threads.

[Not a robought]

16. Nice polution

Hey I just read all about you and guess what? You're first person to go on my ignore list although at the rate by which you break this boards rules I can't imagine you'll be around long enough for me to bother.

[TheZoo]

18. My first ignore also

[pnorman]

19. SHEESH!! ... getting back on topic : MEBA (AFL-CIO)

That's Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. It mainly represents licensed engineers aboard US-flag merchant ships (government vessels too). I've been going to sea since 1946, and have been sailing as a licensed engineer since 1964. I retired 3 years ago, but am still active in internal union affairs; mainly through the internet. More to the point, I'm also active in regional union activities; mainly through the King County Labor Council as well as Jobs with Justice. Likewise with the anti-war movements, where I see many of the same faces. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=24870&group=webcast

I believe very strongly in Unionism ... NOT the Business Unionism of Samuel Gompers or George Meany; narrow, self seeking, frequently corrupt as well as opportunistically jingoistic. I believe in the sort of "Change The World" unionism as dreamed of by Eugene V. Debs.
"Your honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free".
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:9SM4cfHxJ5EJ:www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/Debs1918.html+%22while+there+is+a+lower+class%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=lgtech-tb


Here's another good quote:
"Unionism is the only effective means of curbing arbitrary employers and Union Democracy is the only effective means of controlling arbitrary union officials". Herman Benson of Association for Union Democracy . <http://www.uniondemocracy.org>
Yes, I'm also a member of AUD.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Was UAW and UFCW

No longer unionized since went professional many years ago.

[trof]

20. Union for 30+ years

ALPA - Air Line Pilots' Association
Affiliated with AFL-CIO.

[BlueCollar]

21. Proud Union Member

Transport Workers Union

railroads, airlines and mass transit...

Unions...The folks that brought you weekends.

[Cheswick2.0]

22. And medical benefits

!

[cmd]

23. NEA/OEA/local

[TruthTeller]

25. Proud union member--NEA/MEA/REA

[Peace_2_Everyone]

26. Not me, but I know the Unions have made

the work place safer, and more employee friendly. I was self employed a lot of years and there is no union where I work now.

I just heard of this story on the early morning US Farm report, it may be old news to you. I have to ask, where are the rest of the Union’s support for these Union members?

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/2429170/detail.html

clips.

UW Boycotting Tyson Products

Tyson Offering Workers Wage Freeze, Increased Health Care Cost, Pay Cut

POSTED: 7:14 p.m. EDT August 23, 2003

MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin students wanted to support striking Tyson workers, now they have their wish. UW officials said Friday, it will stop purchasing and serving Tyson products. The Associated Students of Madison, the official student government, asked for the ban.
The UW usually buys about $110,000 of Tyson products a year.

Tyson spokesman Ed Nicholson said the plant is continuing to operate well under the strike conditions. He said Tyson was using employees from other plants as well as nonunion workers.

The union said the company's offer includes an average proposed pay cut of 73 cents an hour, a four-year wage freeze, an increase in health care coverage rates of up to $40 a week, as well as higher deductibles and other health expenses totaling up to $4,600 a year per family.


p.s. 20 yrs ago I worked for Tysons, Lincoln only thought he freed “the slaves”

[Catshrink]

27. Proud to be a new member of the NEA and AEA! <eom>

[Cheswick2.0]

28. hey, are you me?????

I have been a member of the AEA for 8 years, I will be a member of the NEA soon!

[Catshrink]

30. Am I you or are you me?

My A in AEA is for Arizona. Are you in Arizona, too?

[Cheswick2.0]

31. LOL, no my AEA is for Actors

ooopps, B-)

Actors Equity

[Catshrink]

32. Cool

Teachers act too, though. Sometimes I need to be a real drama queen to get their attention. But after three weeks, I'm getting it. I'm gonna make it. A week ago, I couldn't say that.

[Cheswick2.0]

42. sure teachers act, you have to be "on"

the jobs are very similar, that's why I will be doing both in another year.

[bleedingheart]

29. Not me but my Dad and Grandfather

were with the United Mine Workers Union and the United Steelworkers Union!

I am proud of my UNION heritage!

[NightTrain]

33. Unfortunately, no

I did, however, spend six months in 1999 working for Local 1199 in Hartford, CT. I was on the office staff and was hired to help out on a temporary project.

[lpbk2713]

34. I don't understand the apology, but........

IBEW, retired telecomm worker from GTE just before it ceased to exist and became just another mega-corp.

[Shakeydave]

35. Government worker in a right to.....................

"F" me state!

[blondeatlast]

36. I'm considered professional, so can't join, but would join AFSCME

if I could!

AZ is, of course, a "Right to Screw the Laborers" state.

[LynneSin]

37. stepdaughter of a USWA member

step daughter of an a United Steelworkers Union member - one of the pensioners that got screwed over by Bethlehem steel.

I may not be Union, but after what happened these past years with Bethlehem Steel, I'm much more atuned to the cause! My stepfather once drove me past Bethlehem Steel's plant in Steelton PA and showed gave me a tour (outside the plant, it's a very long but narrow tract). How many people worked someplace where they have a place that they take the bodies that were killed on site?

[JohnKleeb]

55. my late uncle was a steel worker not sure if he was in the union

He died before Bethelem did what it did, and he also would had got screwed by bush being he was a WWII vet.

[radwriter0555]

38. AFSME

all the way baby.

[mike_c]

39. CFA

California Faculty Association.

[noiretextatique]

40. UAW Local 2103

was founded for mother jones magazine and sierra club workers in san francisco...@1994. i was the local treasurer. my dad is also a UAW member.

[Redleg]

41. Not in a union but I support workers' rights to organize and

to bargain collectively. I believe unions are an essential part of workplace democracy in the U.S. and have done a good job helping workers educate themselves in economic and employment issues.

Have a good Labor Day- try to forget the Bush Co. attempt to turn back the clock to pre-Wagner Act.

[bobthedrummer]

44. Ran an informational UFCW pickett line for 14 months 1993-94

I'm disabled and have always supported labor and was part of organizing committees in past.:hi:

[WillyT]

45. CSEA !!!

And it ain't fun to be state worker in CA at the moment, ya know???

:grr:

[tedoll78]

46. National Treasury Employees' Union.

Yup.. I was an IRS worker. Furloughed.

[Dr Fate]

47. Worked hand and hand with them in the political arena...

...but my old job had no available union.

I plan to continue working closley with and for Unions.

[alfredo]

48. NALC

National Association of Letter Carriers

AFL-CIO

[oasis]

61. NALC biennial convention to be held in Honolulu July of 2004.

Past guest speakers include; Al Gore,Dick Gephardt,Tipper Gore,John Edwards, Henry Waxman,Niel Abercrombie and AFL-CIO president John Sweeney.

[alfredo]

69. Must be nice. I didn't run for office

I'd rather be working behind the scenes. More flexibility.

[mulsh]

49. CWA

[kimchi]

50. Unfortunately, no. I joined a class action suit against my company, tho.

For overtime compensation as an insurance adjuster-we only talked about unions when none of the higher ups were listening. Yeah, the money is decent, but the amount of work and stress is life-stealing.

My dec. FIL, Carl, worked as an accountant for the AFL-CIO in various spots around the world and retired about 6 years before he died. Union democrat all the way, spoke 7 languages, and a hell of a nice guy.

With 30k members, there have to be a lot more, so KICK this.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

51. Not a union worker but a service advocate to various unions

My father was a Teamster leader and union organizer..so I grew up in union halls and around protests and strikes. He also worked with Ceasar Chavez organizing teamster support for Chavez's missions back in the 70's.

[Lisa]

52. Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

The sessional lecturers at my university recently organized. It was worth it -- we got a pay increase for the long-service people.

[carpetbagger]

53. AFGE Professional

[Astarho]

54. Nope, Right to Work state

But I believe in their cause.

[Bombero1956]

56. a member for 25 years

a proud member of the International Association of Fire Fighters. We got used and abused by * after 9/11. He'll regret that I'm sure.

www.iaff.org

[LWolf]

57. NEA and PETA.

n/t

[Kat45]

58. Used to be in the National Writers Union, a UAW local

[GoddessOfGuinness]

59. AFofM

No apologies needed...

[24HRrnr]

60. Teamsters...

and glad to be rid of them!

[Dispatcher45]

62. BLE/ATDD

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers/American Train Dispatchers Division.

(I work for a railroad)

[Hubert Flottz]

63. Got my 30 year pin in June!

UB of C&J of America AFL-CIO! (Pile Driver!)(what, I can't Hear You!)

[MaineDem]

64. Don't shoot me

I was management. (My husband, a 30+ year union man, called me a "blood sucking management parasite". Lovingly, of course.)

They promoted me after I tried to get a union in for our employees. Coincidence?? It took a while but they did finally organize the work group.

I liked working with the union people. Everyone knew what was expected. It made me a better manager and made better and happier employees.

Unions are great!

[Crewleader]

65. AFL-CIO National IAM

International Association Of Machinist & AeroSpaceWorkers


We are having our Labor Day Picnic at FoxLake Park, in Titusville, Fl. on this Labor Day with 2500 Union brothers and sisters will gather in celebration! :-)

[CanuckAmok]

68. My mom was IAMAW for 20 years...

Then her pland was NAFTA'd to Mexico--she was three years away from retirement, so she took it early...

[annonymous]

66. Member of AFSME

.

[WillParkinson]

67. Union

HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees).

Although, where I work, a lot of people wish we weren't.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

70. IFF and AFL- CIO

firefighters and teamsters wooohooo!!!!