Please leave politics aside.
If any GRMer's are UAW members, I have questions about how you join.
From some preliminary sniffing around, looks like you sign up, do 90-120 days of classroom instruction, then get put into a pool to possibly get called up for an apprenticeship?
I'm am not UAW (United Auto Workers) but I was once Teamsters.
I'm not sure UAW entry works the way you stated. I am more familiar that you apply for a job and then interview with the corporation doing the hiring. If hired, by the corporation, and that corporation's hourly employees are UAW then when you take the job with the corporation you default into being a UAW member.
Of course, I am speaking from the perspective of an Ohio resident. Some other states have "optional" entry into the Union if accept the job with this corporation.
What he said above.
I tried to get a machinist job with Fisher Body in Willow Springs, IL and was tested and put on a hiring list. Once hired I would be a UAW member.
Unfortunately they closed the plant was and was sent a notice that I was not eligible for hire.
Not in the UAW, but what John W said is true. I hired into a union and know quite a few people in the IBEW. If I get the promotion I put in for, I will no longer be in the union.
In reply to AnthonyGS (Forum Supporter) :
I had a friend that was in the railroad biz. He got promoted to management but as he told it, he kept paying union dues so that if something happened he could always drop down to a union position without having to start over. This was 20 years ago so memory a little fuzzy.
In reply to Stampie :
We have a friend that works for UP. I know if I get a promotion I am no longer in the bargaining unit. It's part of the process. One more promotion, and I have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops for the next one that don't really suit me.
I'm not in the UAW but the IAM (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers) and that's how I got it. Applied for a specific job and part of the requirements were being in the union so it was an immediate sign on.
Great info, thanks everyone!
I'm currently in the UAW Local 974 as a Machinery Repairman/Maintenance Machinist.
John Welsh said:
"... you apply for a job and then interview with the corporation doing the hiring. If hired, by the corporation, and that corporation's hourly employees are UAW then when you take the job with the corporation you default into being a UAW member."
^ That's how it works.
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