For new employees
Thank you for considering becoming a member of AFSCME Local 1067. Joining our union means joining a community of dedicated individuals working together for fair wages, benefits, and better working conditions. To initiate your membership, please follow the steps outlined below:
Step 1: Access the Membership Enrollment Card
- Hard Copy Option:
- Download the AFSCME Council 93 Membership Enrollment Card from the following link: Membership Enrollment Card (Hard Copy).
- Electronic Option:
- Alternatively, you can fill out the electronic membership card directly by visiting the AFSCME Council 93 website using the following electronic link: AFSCME Council 93 Membership Card.
Step 2: Complete the Enrollment Card
- Fill out all required fields accurately and completely on the Membership Enrollment Card.
- Ensure that all information provided is current and reflects your accurate personal and employment details.
Step 3: Submission
- Hard Copy Submission:
- Once the hard copy is filled out, scan or take a clear photo of the completed form.
- Send the scanned/photo image to [email protected] for processing.
- Electronic Submission:
- If you opted for the electronic membership card, follow the instructions on the website to submit the completed form directly.
Step 4: You can follow up the new membership with the following email:
Welcome and congratulations on your new position with insert your campus here. You will find that Massachusetts Higher Educations is the best place to be employed. We have always enjoyed an excellent labor/management relationship and there are very few issues – and none that cannot be resolved efficiently and equitably.
You are, as a result of AFSCME’s efforts, already accruing sick time, vacation time, and on your date of hire, you have prorated personal time. There are paid holidays in almost every month of the year.
- Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t union members. On average, union workers’ wages are 28 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts.
- While only 19 percent of non-union workers have guaranteed pensions, fully 78 percent of union workers do.
- More than 84 percent of union workers have jobs that provide health insurance benefits, but only 64 percent of non-union workers do. Unions help employers create a more stable, productive workforce—where workers have a say in improving their jobs.
- Unions help bring workers out of poverty and into the middle class. In fact, in states where workers don’t have union rights, workers’ incomes are lower.
Unions provide the responsible, united voice, which gives millions of wage and salary earners their proper share of participation in American industrial democracy.
Since the end of the 18th Century, American working people have joined together in democratic unions to exercise a voice in their own lives and futures, in a way that individual wage earners cannot. Union members elect their own officers, determine their own goals, set their own dues, and choose the rules by which their unions operate for the common good.
I encourage you to become familiar with the contract and its value. A copy of the contract is available on-line at www.afscme1067.org.
In solidarity,
[Steward’s name & contact information]
Additionally, you can customize the following informational hand-outs for your campus to welcome new members.