Labor Notes
06-29-2017, 06:27 PM
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How We're Surviving Right to Work: Letter Carriers Keep Numbers up with Shop Floor Action (http://www.thebellforum.com/2017/06/how-were-surviving-right-work-letter-carriers-keep-numbers-shop-floor-action)
June 28, 2017 / Alexandra Bradbury (http://www.thebellforum.com/author/4087/content)
Postal unions, like all federal employee unions, are open shop. That means workers can get the benefits of union representation while opting out of paying dues.
Yet the postal unions generally maintain high rates of voluntary union membership—and Letter Carriers Branch 82 in Portland, Oregon, does even better than most. From 90 percent membership five years ago, it has “slowly up-ticked,” says Organizing Chair Willie Groshell, to around 95 percent of the 1,200 represented carriers.
More... (http://labornotes.org/2017/06/how-were-surviving-right-work-letter-carriers-keep-numbers-shop-floor-action)
How We're Surviving Right to Work: Letter Carriers Keep Numbers up with Shop Floor Action (http://www.thebellforum.com/2017/06/how-were-surviving-right-work-letter-carriers-keep-numbers-shop-floor-action)
June 28, 2017 / Alexandra Bradbury (http://www.thebellforum.com/author/4087/content)
Postal unions, like all federal employee unions, are open shop. That means workers can get the benefits of union representation while opting out of paying dues.
Yet the postal unions generally maintain high rates of voluntary union membership—and Letter Carriers Branch 82 in Portland, Oregon, does even better than most. From 90 percent membership five years ago, it has “slowly up-ticked,” says Organizing Chair Willie Groshell, to around 95 percent of the 1,200 represented carriers.
More... (http://labornotes.org/2017/06/how-were-surviving-right-work-letter-carriers-keep-numbers-shop-floor-action)