Recruit a Non-Member Today

New members are the lifeblood of any union. The more members we have, the better we can represent and protect them. Recruitment:

q	makes us more representative

q	increases our negotiating strength

q	provides the resources to negotiate and represent members

q	enables us to maintain a wide range of services

q	gives financial stability to the union.

New members do not just happen. They have to be recruited. Although this is a key activity for our representative, ordinary members can also play a part.

Is there a non-member in your workplace, perhaps working alongside you? Why not tell them about the benefits of FPD/AHPE membership? Tell them about our website where they can learn more about such benefits. We want to help and encourage all of our PATCO, PMSA, PEU, SEAG, and FPD representatives to make recruitment and organization the bedrock of the union’s work.

Volunteer organizers can add muscle to major union recruiting campaigns. There are many reasons why unions fail to win organizing campaigns, why they abort them soon after launching, and why many campaigns don’t get off the drawing board. But the most serious defect in most organizing campaigns is that very little effort is spent on involving union members. Organizing is treated as a separate activity, carried out almost exclusively by staff people, largely in isolation from the members.

If we can’t get masses of union members to be active participants in recruiting new members, we’re never going to become a bigger and stronger labor movement. Our situation is so critical it will require all of us to take extraordinary measures to fulfill our responsibilities to working America.

The FPD/AHPE is in the process of forming an Organization and Education Unit which can help you in a number of ways to do your part, such as providing printed material for noticeboards, or organizing a recruitment event. Please check back periodically to find out what’s available.