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Why Organize?
Think about it. Every company that I have come into contact with has a contract with their suppliers and customers. Contracts that are legally enforceable. But they do not want a contract with their employees. Yet, it is the employees that produce the quality products and/or services that customers want. It is the employees that are injured, maimed, and even killed on the job every year. All for the betterment of the company. Without a collective bargaining agreement with their employer the employees have to accept things the way they are or leave through the nearest exit. Of course if your legal rights are violated you can hire an attorney and take the company to court. But you foot the bill and I don't know of to many working men and women that can afford the expense.

Why Work Under a Collective Bargaining Agreement? 
Under the National Labor Relations Act employees have the legal right to collectively bargain with their employer. Once you win your election and a contract is negotiated:

>You have a means to fight violations of your legal rights. 
>You have a way to improve your wages, hours, and working conditions. 
>You have a way to improve the quality of life for your family.
>You have a way to improve the safety conditions in your place of work so the chances of going home after work in the same physical condition as you came to work in improves.
>The list goes on.

The above is just part of what your dues dollar does for you.

Am I promising you a "rose garden" once you win an election and are working under a labor agreement? I wish I could, but I can't. The labor struggle has been going on in this world for centuries and will continue in the future. Every day their are "fat cats" on the Hill that want to beat labor down. Doesn't make since when company profits sore and they figure its good enough to give the minimum to the working men and women of this country. But that's the way they see it. After all they formed or inherited the company. They don't look at the "cold hard truth" that it is the employees sweat, blood, and lives that produce the astronomical profits they reap.

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"THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE BEST REPRESENTATION COMES FROM A WELL-TRAINED UNION STEWARD. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PROTECTION OF A GOOD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT. . . ." Dick Sturgeon, Workers Have Rights Too.

Comments or Suggestions? E-mail the Communications Officer
of Siouxland Lodge 1426 IAMAW
Greg Enright