Saturday, February 19, 2011

Let's Communicate

Commerce’s Union is growing.  The challenges it faces are getting larger as well.  Now more than ever we need to organize and get organized. 

The strength of the Union comes from working and campaigning together.  It comes from Union members simply talking to each other about shared concerns and issues and what, together, they can do about it. 

In other words, it’s about communication.  As our Union grows and the challenges it faces increases in number and complexity, our Union Shop needs to stay in touch more frequently and effectively. 

You may have noticed some colorful paperwork on the Union bulletin board.  If you are reading this blog, then you are probably only doing for the first or second time.  We are going to get together the first Monday of each month during lunch.  All of these are activities we are doing to get news out to you and give you a chance to talk about it.  But we can do more.


Attached to this blog is a Communication Plan that we are developing.  We are organizing a Communications Committee which we hope will consist of about a dozen members.  This Committee will maintain our bulletin boards and draft articles for the blog.  They will both get the news out to members and start talking about it.


Effective communication needs to be developed and maintained.  It also can not become overwhelming and discouraging.  We want avoid burning out our volunteers, which is why we are trying to get a dozen members to join the Committee.  In this way, we can get more articles for the Commerce blog while, at the same time, limiting the number of writing assignments to only one or two per year. 


We are looking for “News Carriers” to maintain our bulletin boards and help distribute information and news.  If we have a News Carrier for each floor, then means that volunteers can still get a lunch break on days that they have to distribute Union news.  It also means our bulletin boards stay more up-to-date.


The Communication Plan includes a list of the volunteers that we need.  So far we have four members on the Committee.  We need a few more. 


If you are interested in joining us, please give me a call or send me an email.  My email address is billtheunionguy@gmail.com or call 725-5031 (work) or 956-3476 (home).

2 comments:

Tanya Mercier said...

Where's the communication plan referred to in the Blog. You said it is attached?

Bill The Union Guy said...

It is locate in the column on the right. It is an additional page.