Federal Sector Union Representative

Location

Syracuse, NY | United States

Job description

SEIU Local 200United

Federal Sector Union Representative

Based in Upstate NY
(required to live within commuting distance to our Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, or Albany offices)

SEIU Local 200United is now hiring a Union Rep for workers in Veteran’s Health Administration hospitals in Albany NY, Syracuse, Canandaigua, and Erie Pennsylvania, along with satellite facilities.

For 100 years, SEIU members have fought for dignity, respect, and better conditions in our workplaces and communities. Our diverse leaders and staff support workers as they speak out for good jobs and better lives for themselves and their families.

SEIU Local 200United is a Local chapter of SEIU that is made up of a wide variety of workers in public, private, and federal sectors.

Responsibilities:

• Train, mentor, and develop member leaders (some of whom are on paid release time for union business).
• Increase union density in an open shop environment.
• Represent workers in sometimes complex grievances and appeals resulting from dissatisfactions, contract violations, adverse actions, classification appeals, and other disputes.
• Enforcing our union contracts. This includes investigating and research, filing grievances for contract violations, filing unfair labor practice charges, and using impasse, conciliation, and mediation.
• Negotiate federal sector union contracts with long terms: both leading bargaining at the table and leading every aspect of contract campaigns from drafting proposals to organizing a member contract action team to job actions including pickets, rallies, and press conferences.
• Create communications materials.
• Carefully manage and maintain membership data to track and develop member activists, leaders, and participation.

Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have experience organizing an representing federal sector union workers and with labor relations under the FLRA.
• Commitment to the goals and principles workers’ rights.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultural, economic, and social backgrounds.
• Ability to think clearly and problem solve under pressure.
• Ability to independently create and follow through with a campaign plan from start to finish.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet established benchmarks and deadlines.
• Strong speaking and writing skills a must.
• Ability to function in a computerized smartphone environment. Functional ability to utilize Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Docs, and social media.
• Willingness to work long hours, evenings, and weekends as needed.
• Experience negotiating CBAs (creating demands, contract costing, negotiating, running a public pressure campaign), ideally in the federal sector.
• Experience navigating the grievance process in the federal sector, as well as resolving issues outside a formal process.
• A valid driver’s license and an insured vehicle required.

Location:
Position requires candidate to live within commuting distance to our Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, or Albany offices, as well as some travel as the work is field based.

Compensation:
Salary range: $56,500—63,500 depending on experience plus a monthly car allowance. A benefits package including 100% employer-paid family health and dental insurance and a generous employer-paid defined benefit pension.

To Apply:
Email a cover letter, résumé, and references by to: August Schneeberg, Research and Communications Director, [email protected]

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