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    1. Building Strong Unions Union Participation
    2. Formal Participation
      • Regular Formal Activity
      • Holding union office
      • Serving on a committee
      • Working on a political campaign
      • Working on an organizing committee
    3. Intermittent Formal
      • Attending a union meeting
      • Voting for officers
      • Voting on the contract
      • Walking a picket line
    4. Informal Participation
      • Characterized as unstructured, supportive, informal activities
      • Speaking up in defense of union
      • Discussing contract with new hire
      • Advising members how union helps
    5. Union Citizenship Behaviors (UCB)
      • Sum of Individual members’ informal participation
      • Significant impact on union effectiveness
      • Unions have greater success engaging members in less formal types of participation
      • Fewer barriers of associated qualification
      • Often require less time commitment
    6. UCB
        • Characteristics of the individual
        • Environment in which the individual operates
        • Member Participation is a form of behavior
        • Affected by attitude and/or beliefs
        • Member may choose not to participate
    7. Building a Strong Union
      • Focus on member attitudes and beliefs
      • Create an environment within union
      • Encourages and rewards participation
      • Encourages and rewards support
      • Encourages behavior that benefits the union
    8. Model of Individual Behavior
    9. Attitudes and Beliefs
      • Individuals not born with attitudes and beliefs
      • Product of experiences
      • Information received from sources
      • New experiences can reshape attitude
      • Foster new attitudes
    10. Union Member Commitment
      • Most Satisfied – Positive Attitude – About Union
      • Satisfied – most committed
      • Union performance
      • Treatment by union officials
      • Operation of grievance procedure
      • First year experience with union was positive
    11. Member Commitment
      • Four Parts
      • Union Loyalty
      • Responsibility to Union
      • Willingness to work on behalf of Union
      • General belief in unionism
    12. Loyalty
      • Reflects a high degree of loyalty
      • Takes pride in association with union
      • Have clear awareness of benefits of membership
    13. Responsibility to Union
      • Recognize and be willing to fulfill day-to-day obligations
      • Keeping union members informed
      • Filing grievances
    14. Willingness to work
      • Serve as union officer
      • Serve on negotiation committee
      • Serve as political action activist
      • Coordinate internal organizing activities
    15. Belief in Unionism
      • Believes in unionism in general
      • Deep seated positive attitude towards unions
      • Strongly supports the unions
      • Actively and consistently participates
    16. Commitment and Participation
      • Union commitment is an attitude
      • Union participation is a behavior
      • Commitment closely tied to attitude
      • High level of commitment
      • More likely to participate
      • High levels of participation lead to more effective union
    17. Big Labor Attitude
      • View of union and union leaders
      • Self Interested
      • Opposed to change
      • Autocratic
      • Opposed to change
      • Overly focused on politics
    18. Describes Does not Unions play an important role in ensuring workers’ pay is fair and equitable 64% 31% 5% Don’t Know Unions go too far in protecting workers who are incompetent or inefficient Describes Does not Don’t know 57% 36% 7% Source: USA Today labor “Workers Assess Conditions, Unions, Pay,” 1997
    19. Specific Union Attitudes
      • Attitudes about specific union may different
      • Members’ view of their representative union
      • Grouped into three dimensions
      • Instrumentality
      • Satisfaction
      • Perceived union support
    20. Impact of Specific and General Attitudes on Union Commitment General Attitudes about Unions - Big Labor Image - Instrumentality
      • Specific Attitudes about Unions
      • Instrumentality
      • Satisfaction
      • - Perceived Support
      Member Commitment Attitudes Member Participation Behavior
    21. Model of Member Participation Member Commitment (Attitudes) Union Environment (Culture, Leadership ) Member Participation (Behavior) Union Effectiveness
    22. Instructor’s Closing Comments Union Participation

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