Membership Meetings: Second Wednesday of every month, 3 PM and 7:30 PM, at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. The Labor Temple is accessible by Madison Metro Bus. A Spanish translator is available at membership meetings.
Executive Board Meetings: Second Wednesday, 5 PM (same day as membership meeting, at the Labor Temple) and fourth Monday of every month, 5 PM (at the Local 171 Office, 2433 University Ave).
Steward's Meetings: First Thursday of every month, 3:30 PM (Memorial Union, check TITU)
For Other meeting listings, see the Calendar Page.
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Labor Management Meetings |
What is a Labor Management Meeting?
And what does it have to do with me?
Questions and concerns of both labor and management are discussed in the Labor Management meetings. Some recent topics that have been brought up are direct deposit, uniforms, scheduling, contracting out, inadequate staffing, and safety issues.
Any union member can submit a question for the meeting. We are allowed to have five Blue Collar, three Law Enforcement, three Security and three Technical employees in pay status at the meeting, as long as the total number does not exceed twelve people.
If you have a question to submit or wish to come to a meeting, talk to your steward, or call the Union office at 232-9393. |
Can't attend Union meetings because of your work schedule? |
Local 171 has a policy that allows members who otherwise can not attend membership meetings to be reimbursed for lost time to attend up to 3 meetings a year. This benefit allows members whose work schedules overlap both meeting times to request time off without pay for union business. Then you can file for reimbursement from the Local for that lost time.
The intent of this benefit is to allow members who never can attend a meeting because of the work schedule to still be active and have a voice. This benefit is particularly helpful when Local 171 nominations/elections are being held. While the time off is not guaranteed under the contract, if your supervisor will let you off for this time, you can attend without having to use benefit time.
Please note: if you are able to attend any of the meetings throughout the year in your off time, you are not eligible for this benefit. For example, if your schedule is 3 pm to 11:30 pm M-F, you would be allowed reimbursement to attend up to 3 meetings a year to attend if you can get the time away from work. If however, your schedule happened to be 8 am to 4:30 pm and you wanted to attend the 3 o'clock meeting, you would not be eligible for reimbursement because you could attend the 7:30 meeting on your own time.
Unions work because there is strength in numbers. Everybody who can get involved in some way makes us stronger and gives us a louder voice come bargaining time. We are trying to take all excuses away for not being involved in some way. If for any reason you still can not attend a meeting, please let your steward know and we can try and address further concerns. |
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