Shop stewards
Top ten things a steward should do
- Get to know the membership you represent
- Make yourself familiar and available
- Meet with members to hear individual or group concerns or complaints
- Be proactive in identifying and solving problems, rather than waiting and reacting to problems
- Talk informally to supervisors to address members’ issues
- Mobilize members when management breeches the collective agreement, their own policies or the law
- Provide representation to members on grievances
- Organize and participate in workplace actions
- Work with and take direction from local executive and union staff
- Engage members in union campaigns
Date Modified : 2011/05/13
