Calendar of Events

Here you will find the Calendar of Events. Meeting locations as well as date and time, Convention dates, E-board meeting locations and times as well as special Union events and meeting places.

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September General Membership Meeting

Wednesday September 15th, At Gampers in Moose Lake. 4654 County Road 61.

Stewards meeting at 3:30 for any stewards wishing to meet. The agenda is to talk about how to complete a grievance form and what to do with your information from there.

E-board meeting 4:30pm

General Membership 5:30pm

Our contract will be up June 30 2011, if you have ideas for the master and/or suppplemental part of our contract fill out a proposal form by September 1st and return it via e-mail to pamsater@wearelocal1092.org

http://afscmemn.org/sites/afscmemn.org/files/Proposal%20form%20units%202%203%204%206%207_0.pdf

October General Membership Meeting

Wednesday October 13th, in Duluth at the Council 5 office. 211 W 2nd Street.

Use the alley door.

E-board meeting 4:30pm

General Membership 5:30pm MAP

November General Membership Meeting

Wednesday November 10th, In Virginia at the Virginia Servicemens Club. 229 Chestnut St.

General Membership 5:30pm

E-board meeting at 4:30pm

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Building the Union With Health and Safety

Building the union means getting people involved. Getting workers involved with health and safety issues is a good way to increase participation in the union. It is also a good way to solve problems. All too often, just a few of the same people take responsibility for addressing every workplace problem. But the local union is more effective when more members participate in activities and see that things get done.

Workers may not take part in union efforts to address problems because they think, “Things have always been that way;” or “Nothing is going to change.” Union leaders and activists have a better chance of mobilizing workers to participate in union activities by taking on issues that workers care about and that can be changed.full story...

Organizing: A Tale of Two Stewards

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

Dean Vercruysse is a steward dynamo. The Local 1492 steward and Washington Council 2 executive board member will pitch in wherever help is needed. That is how he became involved in the effort to organize the school bus drivers employed by Laidlaw here.

When he learned about the conditions under which the drivers worked, he was even more willing to help full story...

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