Did you know that unionized workers make an average of 26% more than non-unionized workers?

Have you felt bringing your co-workers together at your workplace and bargaining collectively for pay, benefits, and hours would be more successful than "going it alone?"

 

WHY ORGANIZE?

Do you want management to listen to your concerns?

Do you want to protect and improve your wages and benefits?

Do you want to ensure you are treated fairly?

Do you want to make your company a better place to work?

Have you been issued a furlough?

Have your benefits been reduced or cut?

Have your hours been cut?

Have you worked unpaid over-time?

What a union can do:

Provide employees a voice in their working conditions.

Negotiate enforceable rights, wages and benefits in a written contract.

Union organizing is hard work. But you can do it! It requires lots of one-on-one contact with your coworkers. It requires involvement and participation. When successful, organizing can be one of the most emotionally rewarding events you will experience.

How to start organizing:

1. Talk to co-workers you trust and determine who is interested in forming a union.
2. Determine how many people work for your employer by department and type of job.
3. Determine who the supervisors are.
4. Do NOT send out leaflets or call a meeting! Once management gets wind of interest in a union they will launch a union avoidance campaign.

5. Contact Shannon Duffy of The Newspaper Guild at 314-241-7046 or email him from your personal email at: spd@stlouisguild.org, or contact Mary Casey at: mcasey@stlouisguild.org.

Thanks to the TNG-International Union for the basis of this information.

St. Louis Newspaper Guild
1015 Locust, Suite 735 | St. Louis, MO 63101
Phone: 314.241.7046 | Fax 314-241-7459
Email to: Shannon Duffy, Business Representative at spd@stlouisguild.org
or Mary Casey, Guild Representative at mcasey@stlouisguild.org