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Please
point me in the direction where I can get information on the necessary steps to
form a union. My wife is a hairdresser and she feels that she and a lot of her
colleagues get the "short end of the stick " when it comes to knowing
their rights and being treated fairly on the job.
Signed,
In Union We Stand
Dear In Union:
Contact the Department of Labor, the AFL/CIO, Teamsters, and any host of other sources and you will find guidance for starting and/or joining a union. There should be unions listed in your local telephone directory, or you might get help from you local library to learn their addresses and phone numbers in your state.
You should advise your wife that just the rumor that she is talking about starting a union can single her out as a trouble-maker. This forewarning is not meant to stop her union talk, but rather it is meant to steel her for what might happen. Before there is a go-no go vote for a union in her workplace, it could take some weeks of preparation.
I was a charter member of forming two unions. They do not solve all problems present and future in any workplace. And they take great measures of psychic energy and off-the-clock effort.
Your wife will need your support.
Getting to WEGO is serious business and will take lots of good will and good humor to get there.
Bill Gorden