If you belong/belonged to any UNIONS, check in!

Former member of the National Education Association and the National Treasury Employees Union.

DU Union members past and present, step forward. :toast:

National Treasury Employees' Union! :)

That was my gig some years ago. :-)

From February through August, I type tax information into the IRS system. Then, from August through January, I collect unemployment benefits. It's a great gig, especially for getting myself through school.

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Father Retired From Yellow Freight Systems last November.

I am a 3-year member of the National Education Association.

Here's to your Dad, and to you! :toast:

As you well know, in a RTW state.

It's an uphill battle, I tell ya.

If I dared even think union at my employer, I would be out on my ass post-haste. :-(

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Now retired. Another toast to my brothers and sisters. :toast:

I didn't even mention my WEA and KEA (state and local respectively) chapters. :toast:

New York State Nurses Association and also the ANA. I come from a union family. :hi:

(Glad to see you renounced your terra-ist ties to the NEA Zomby :P)

Nursing is a noble and underappreciated profession.

I wish the NEA would renounce their credit card ties to MBNA, the largest donor to Bush in 2000. Otherwise, I was happy with my tenure there, terraist and all. ;-)

and UFCW member here.

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Former member of the Communications Workers of America

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former executive board member CWA 9410. Stewart for TIU- retired,still member and stewart.

I'm no longer teaching, but I come from a long line of union educators.

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No regrets, life is an adventure. :toast:

The UAW's history is a fine one indeed. We owe minimum wage laws to them! :toast:

We are a law firm, but we joined to show our solidarity.

Some of the hardest work there is, and where would we be without them? :toast:

Son is future member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Go unions!

Here's to you and your son! :toast:

The republicans haven't sent us a thing in the mail and don't call our house. Can't imagine why.

You are in solid company, my friend. :toast:

here. :hi: Zomby!

Our local disbanded so I am no longer a member.

And on that NOTE, :toast: ;-)

When I was a janitor at Wayne State University in Detroit.

a branch of the teamsters!

I love me some trains! :D

Currently on withdrawal from both.

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Proud to be a Union Member!

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and proud of it! Formerly with the Machinists Union, but that plant went under. Been a Union member most of my working life.

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A member of United steel workers back when I was 18/19. Unfortunately they were ready to throw my job out the window when I filed a grievance against a foreman who tried to fire me for BS reasons. I had to go to management who settled the whole thing and gave me what i wanted.
That was a long time ago and I have no problem with unions, just one bad experience.

Unfortunately, unions are run by people, and subject to the same whims politically in the workplace. I can share of a few of my own downside stories, and I welcome them all here, for better or worse.

both my parents are union; Dad's in the GMP (glass molding and plastics) and Mom's in the NEA and OMEA. I'm in the ACLU, if that counts :)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

And I will take any plug I can get for the ACLU, even if not relevant here, lol! :-)

Plenty more chances in the future. :D

Long enough to see the trend from "collective bargaining" to "collective begging".

Hope is on the way.

Understood. Not easy times these days, huh?

International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees.

Thanks for your work! I wouldn't want to imagine life without the arts. :toast:

Hiya Brother/Sister!

That'd be 'sister'. :hi:

Lived in Vancouver (West Van) during production of McCabe & Ms. Miller. Loved Canada and Canadians! One of the nicest years of my life.

until I stopped teaching. Was a secretary for the union. I won't cros a picket line, and I have been known to serenade picketers with union songs ("YOu can't scare me, I'm sticking with the union...'til the day I die")

I know that one well! :toast:

Remarkable how many union folks don't know it any more. I also like "Which Side Are You On?"

And Pete Seeger and all those old masters! :toast:

American Postal Workers Union

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161-710. :bounce:

Aren't you also a member of the Local Guinness Drinkers #16 and the Anteaters Guild? :beer:

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There is, unexpectedly, a minor wealth of unions that an Atlanta Public Schools teacher can join. I'm still looking through all the handouts.

The AFT and NEA. And from my experience with the NEA, there is a state chapter and a local chapter for each. Whatever you decide, you will probably have multi-level memberships.

Baby Uly Avatar! :toast:

Dad retired from driving freight trucks,40 year Teamster.

Grandfather was with the Painters Union, President of local at one time.

I have been a member of the GCIU when I worked in the printing industry,the Ironworkers and the American Federadtion of Musicians.

Brotherhood Forever!

International Union of Operating Engineers, when I was driving haulage trucks and operating heavy equipment in a copper mine.

Is there harder work than mining? Here's to all you did! :toast:

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Directors Guild of Canada BC District Council, Int'l Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 891, and Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople Local 2020(under Communications, Energy, and Paper Workers Union of Canada).


Billy Bragg sings:

There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hands of a worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and out sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union

Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a Union

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and out sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union.

Actors Equity Association

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:toast: to you for starting this thread! 'Tis nice to have a place to 'rally' with kindred spirits. Thank you.

I am shunning the bullhockey in GD2004. :toast: :hi:

United Food & Commercial Workers

edited to add - hubby is member of the Carpenter's union

Happy Labor Day! :toast: :party: :beer:

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Put me through college and grad school.

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Paid my dues when I made my first pro sale.

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Pcat

That's Sheet Metal Worker's International Ass. (retired with lots of dough!) & California Nurses Ass. (active with lots of dough!)

Happy Labor Day!

Because I am able to have some leisure time thanks to Unions.

and former CWA member.

There is power in a union!

TSEU is affiliated with the Communication Workers of America.

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You are also a member of United Threadjackers International #69, M.A.T.C.O.M. chapter, local DU!

Before that, Carpenters and Joiners Union

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35 Years.

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I'm the astronomy department steward for the Graduate Employee Organization at UMass -- one of those graduate student unions that's aligned with the UAW.

All hourly non administrative people working in the plant were members of this union. My current plant does not have a union.

Denver Musicians Association :-)

Does that count? :shrug:

and Not working, like ALWAYS!!!!

National Air Traffic Controllers Association (an AFL-CIO affiliate)

and my mate is an associate member of NATCA (supe and can't join, but supports them). Friends of ours were on the ground floor getting that started. Good for you.

A proud member until this economy tanked and my company shut their doors after 40 years this last Febuary. I currently am making less money per hour than I did when I got out of High School in 1976...when I joined the United Steelworkers Union and worked in the underground iron mines of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Kerry On

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they cover college workers for some reason

I was a union member for the three years I worked for Harvard, in their union for clerical and technical workers.

I still have my card.


IT'S NOT ANTI-HARVARD TO BE PRO-UNION

She is a gate agent for United at ORD.

As for me, I'm a college student, so I'm not at that point yet. I will be in a few years, though!:D

my father is a member of a nursing union, not sure which one, he is also a member of a steelworkers union, even though he's no longer a steelworker.

was a union steward for a while too!


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National, state, and local chapters.

Former meber of CSEA.

sheet metal workers. Worked for the Teamsters several different jobs.

CWA Local 9119, AFL-CIO

Former Teamsters and former Sheetmetal Workers

In college I worked at a windshield-wiper factory. Plant up and moved to Mexico the summer after I left.

We're based in Everett WA but represent telephone company employees in Washington and Oregon.

at Kroger's. Shop Kroger's, they're a union shop.

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