What is a Union

A Union is a organization of workers joined together for a common purpose, for mutual aid and protection, to engage in concerted activity, collective bargaining, and political action, to elevate their conditions of life and labor: an organization by which ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Purpose of a Union Auxiliary

a: Educating members in trade unionism, union problems, and current political issues

b: Taking political action to obtain legislation in the interest of labor and to oppose anti-labor
legislation.

c: Buying products made only and distributed only under conditions fair to organized labor.

d: Assisting the union by voluntary picketing.

e: Aiding and advancing the economic welfare of the workers.

f: Assisting the workers whenever possible to secure increases in wage levels, reduction of their hours of toil, and improvement of their working conditions

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