• EXECUTIVE SECTARY       JUNE COSBY:                EMAIL:  JCBOOGIE_8@MSN.COM     609-645-5855   Attend your F.O.P. meetings!   All members are encouraged to attend our Monthly Meetings, Third Thursday of Every Month, In the past several years your Executive Board has developed numerous ways for you to access important information relating to your present and future employment rights along with all of the negotiated benefits available to you. We should currently be the most informed union members in history of the FOP 34 for many reasons. We have a web site we can be accessed by ALL Members to view, employment benefits legislative issues relating to our employment, etc. There are numerous telephone numbers and e-mail addresses you can utilize to speak with your representatives and YOU’RE union.  However, one of the most important responsibilities we have as members, who together make up this critically important organization, is to attend local meetings.  At  local  lodge  meetings brothers  and  sisters  have  a  chance  to  share  valuable  information  with  each  other  and  their representative(s) about issues arising at different shifts and with different supervisors that may at some point be a threat to your job. By attending local lodge meetings we learn about what benefits we have only because we are a union and what the County and the Governor are attempting to do to limit or take away those benefits as well as what each of us can do to protect our benefits and agreement rights. The County does not want you to know about your Collective Bargaining Agreement or your rights under that Agreement! In fact, the Administrators meet regularly in an attempt to find ways to erode your Collective Bargaining Agreement and YOU'RE rights. You work hard to earn a pay check and a portion of your paycheck is invested as dues in your union so please get involved by attending your local lodge meetings. Someone recently said “paying union dues without being involved or attending meetings is like paying for cable television without owning a television set”. Your union needs your experience and input!   IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT WE MEET AND GET INVOLVED IN PROTECTING OUR FUTURES SO PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO ATTEND YOUR LOCAL LODGE MEETINGS!!!   June Cosby Misti Merritt: E - MAIL : shemisti@aol.com   A strong union is a successful union. A successful union is built upon solidarity sisters and brothers working together toward their common cause; higher wages, good benefits, good working conditions, protection from arbitrary and unfair employer action. Solidarity means strength.  As a member of Local 34, you have representation at the bargaining table, working for you to obtain the best wages, benefits and working conditions we could hope for. You have the protection of a grievance process in the event you are unfairly fired or disciplined. The most important job of any Local Union is to protect their members and improve the standard of living for them. Thank You for you continued support , I am looking forward to this year being a fresh start with another continued year of success for the Lodge and its Members.                 Misti Merritt

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