Union members, past and present, check in

[Zomby Woof]

Happy Labor Day. :patriot:

National Education Association

National Treasury Employees Union

[driver8]

1. Proud union member right here!! IATSE Local 700 -- Editor's Guild. n/t

[Droopy]

2. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

I've actually found a better gig at a non-union shop, but I do have an evil master plan to unionize the place.

[lizziegrace]

3. United Food and Commercial Workers

I had a second job as a part-time cashier at a grocery store two years ago.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. UAW and UFCW!

WOO HOO!

:woohoo:

[skygazer]

5. UFCW checking in

And my SO is UBC. We are a Union family. :patriot:

[two gun sid]

6. Union electrician....

4th generation Union Man. I thank the Goddess every day for the Union.

[WinkyDink]

7. NEA here, too, baybay. And from Molly Maguire territory, daughter of a coal-cracker.

[billyoc]

8. IABSORIW, TWU, NYC Central Labor Council delegate.

Solidarity forever!

[ZombieNixon]

9. Former UFCW here

Spent a summer working at Safeway before college. :P

[Fox Mulder]

10. Graphic Communications Conference International Brotherhood of Teamsters here.

:hi:

:patriot:

[EstimatedProphet]

11. I have never been a union member, but I am a proud union supporter

[Pale Blue Dot]

12. Brand new union member here!

:woohoo:

[billyoc]

16. Extra point for anyone who can guess what union local Finnfan is a member of.

First guess:

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 425

:hi:

[Pale Blue Dot]

29. Actually, it's the HFT

Hartford Federation of Teachers.

[sasquatch]

13. IUE-CWA local 755; Founding Local

:patriot:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. SEIU Local 535!

For the American Red Cross...

:patriot:

[Silver Swan]

15. American Federation of Government Employees

But I'm retired now.

[Crabby Appleton]

17. Formerly in both the Teamsters and the Steelworkers Unions

I was a Steelworker at a plant whose former president was Samuel Prescott Bush, great-grandfather of *

[femmocrat]

33. USW just endorsed John Edwards today!

:woohoo:

Grand-daughter and daughter-in-law of Steelworkers! :patriot:

[Popol Vuh]

18. ILWU local 13

15yrs... Happy Labor Day my brothers and sisters... :patriot:

[Deep13]

19. United Food & Commercial Workers

For a short time in the 1990s.

[China_cat]

20. OPEIU Local 73

[davsand]

40. OPEIU local 44

American Guild of Appraisers:

http://www.appraisersguild.org/


I am a former member of Unite (It was the same local as MyCritters!)


Happy Labor Day to everyone! We marched with the local Jobs With Justice organization in the parade then went to the annual AFL-CIO picnic. I love Labor Day because it is literally a reunion for me. I get to see a lot of folks there that I know and don't see every day.



Laura

[ok_cpu]

21. Former UFCW Local 880

:patriot:

[bridgit]

22. cross posted back this way from GD: SAG, since 1987...

http://www.sag.org/sagWebApp h is Operating Engineers since 1972 http://www.iuoestateunit12.org/index.htm and his uncle was key in the establishment of: The California Teachers Association http://www.cta.org/home.aspx

[havocmom]

23. Here. And sad. Ask most people who Samuel Gompers was

and you get blank stares.

:cry:
Former AFSCME member here. Proud granddaughter of member of the Typographical Union who lost part of his hand due to unsafe working conditions and fought the rest of his life to keep others safe as they worked to get America's morning papers out.

[Connonym]

24. former APWU

proudly for 10 years. When RayGun killed the unions he signed the death order on the middle class imho. Union workers are an under appreciated segment of American society. Union, yet another word/concept that the right wing has managed to taint.

[Momgonepostal]

57. Happy post-labor day from another APWU-er

:hi:

[blockhead]

25. Bricklayers

17+ years

[Zoigal]

26. Proud life time member

of NEA ....strike capitan for two nasty school strikes...

[last_texas_dem]

27. American Postal Workers Union

I was once a member but the facility where I was working has been "consolidated" (I think that's the "proper" word). I hope to again be a union member at a future job.

[Momgonepostal]

58. Were you at a REC?

That's were I am now, literally and figuratively.

We'll be closing our doors in November.

[BarenakedLady]

28. Brotherhood of Correctional Officers

I wasn't an officer, a secretary at the prison in RI, but I was part of the union.

:patriot:

[femmocrat]

30. Happy Labor Day, Brothers and Sisters!

National Education Association :patriot:

Solidarity forever!

[Kali]

31. in 1976 I was in the Hotel and Food Services Union

(I think that was what it was called :blush: ) I was 16 and spending a winter in Anchorage Alaska.

Arizona is a "right to work" state. Must be repuke nomenclature, that.

[eyesroll]

32. Former NEA. Current clerk at a law firm that represents unions and employees.

Happy Labor Day.

[baldguy]

34. UAW

[Critters2]

35. Proud past member of UNITE

Happy Labor Day :patriot:

[flying rabbit]

36. Millwright checking in!

[Darth_Kitten]

37. CUPE

yeah. :)

[Monk06]

43. CUPE Local fifty here. 1971 to 1980

[Xipe Totec]

38. S.T.P.R.M. here

(Secretaria de Trabajadores Petroleros de la Republica Mexicana)

The Oil Worker's Union of the Republic of Mexico.

Same as my dad:



http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe%20Totec/62

[Inchworm]

39. International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers

That has extra words in it from when I did it.

:patriot:

[tigereye]

41. previously in the SEIU

Happy Labor Day to all!

[Richard Steele]

42. Past member of the Steelworkers, and the UFCW. nm

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

44. Ex-Steelworker.

During one of my many careers I welded bicycles for the Huffy Corporation. I was elected as a section rep at one point- I thought it was fun!

The next year we went out on strike and I hopped on my bike and moved to Orlando and started a 20 year landscaping career.

On edit- the bicycle manufacturing plant closed a year or so after I left. Outsourcing, I believe.

[Bravo Zulu]

45. Local #1060 IAofM

25 years,about 3 years striking, retired member

My Dad was UMW, they renamed the 10th Street bridge in Pittsburgh today after my Uncle, Phillip Murray!

[UTUSN]

46. I was in a union a few times n/t

[Godhumor]

47. NEA here

6 years of teaching and working with one of the most powerful unions in the country.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. American Federation of Musicians

:patriot::toast:

[cloudbase]

49. Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association here.

Retired now, but I still stay active in union affairs.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

50. DC37

AFSCME

NYS AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO


Happy Labor Day........

[Vidar]

51. Yep, NEA.

[blueknight]

52. brotherhood of locomotive engineers

retired:toast:

[MissMillie]

53. HUCTW Union present and accounted for

Harvard University Clerical and Technical Workers Union.

[AllegroRondo]

54. Musician's Union

and my dad was United Auto Workers for 20 years.

[eyepaddle]

55. MAPE, also the son of a

Teamster

[Momgonepostal]

56. Current APWU member here!

(That's American Postal Workers Union) :-)

[kernelfarmer]

59. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Local 1362

Executive Board of Hawkeye Labor Council, AFL-CIO

[LynneSin]

60. Not Union but come from a family of Union members

So I'm behind the Union 110%