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<blockquote data-quote="Inthegame" data-source="post: 2631553" data-attributes="member: 37112">Heaven forbid. Someone actually ON THE SHOP FLOOR contacting new hires. That&#039;s exactly the guys/gals the locals should be using for first contact.I think you mean to the new employee. If they&#039;re members, they already signed up. If they sign up, the local officers/BA then will have their contact info, including possibly a phone number. UPS doesn&#039;t freely give this info to locals and certainly not on a timely basis. So unless you have an officer/BA that can &quot;divine&quot; that info, locals depend on their stewards to inform the local of new hires for that desired first contact.The local officers do not &quot;get&quot; the dues money any more than the stewards. The local union does, and those funds are controlled by elected leaders and members interested enough to show up at meetings.&quot;Donations&quot; are what you put in a basket on Sundays. Dues buy a service, just like tax dollars. (Wonder why those tax dollar &quot;donations&quot; remain mandatory.) Anyway, if one gets nothing more than a contract with a right to grieve, dues are money well spent.We all have a desire that our local officials are omnipresent and omnipotent, but the fact remains if members want a strong local union THEY have to step up. Elect better leaders but in the meantime don&#039;t cut off your leaders legs with apathy and expect them to run to your aid.RTW has one sole objective, to weaken unions. Anyone excusing it for any reason needs to remember that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inthegame, post: 2631553, member: 37112"] Heaven forbid. Someone actually ON THE SHOP FLOOR contacting new hires. That's exactly the guys/gals the locals should be using for first contact. I think you mean to the new [U][I]employee[/I][/U]. If they're members, they already signed up. If they sign up, the local officers/BA then will have their contact info, including possibly a phone number. UPS doesn't freely give this info to locals and certainly not on a timely basis. So unless you have an officer/BA that can "divine" that info, locals depend on their stewards to inform the local of new hires for that desired first contact. The local officers do not "get" the dues money any more than the stewards. The local union does, and those funds are controlled by elected leaders and members interested enough to show up at meetings. "Donations" are what you put in a basket on Sundays. Dues buy a service, just like tax dollars. (Wonder why those tax dollar "donations" remain mandatory.) Anyway, if one gets nothing more than a contract with a right to grieve, dues are money well spent. We all have a desire that our local officials are omnipresent and omnipotent, but the fact remains if members want a strong local union THEY have to step up. Elect better leaders but in the meantime don't cut off your leaders legs with apathy and expect them to run to your aid. RTW has one sole objective, to weaken unions. Anyone excusing it for any reason needs to remember that. [/QUOTE]

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