If you would prefer to complete this form on paper, please request a copy from your HR department or call Local 8 at 206-728-2326.

REPRESENTATION AUTHORIZATION

I hereby request and accept membership in UNITE HERE Local 8, (hereinafter referred to as “the local Union”) and authorize it to be my collective bargaining representative in all matters relating to my wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment. I hereby agree to be bound by the Constitution of UNITE HERE International Union and the bylaws of the local Union or any other UNITE HERE local Union of which I may become a member. I hereby agree that it is my responsibility to keep the local Union updated on my current address.

DUES CHECKOFF

I hereby voluntarily request and authorize my employer to deduct from any wages or compensation due me, each and every month, the dues, initiation fees or reinstatement fees required as a condition of acquiring and maintaining membership in good standing in the local Union, and I direct that the same be forwarded each month to the local Union. This authorization shall remain in effect and shall be irrevocable unless I revoke it by sending written notice to both the Employer and the local Union by registered mail during a period of ten (10) days immediately after any anniversary of the date of this authorization or after the date of termination of the applicable agreement between my Employer and the local Union, whichever occurs sooner, and shall be automatically renewed as an irrevocable checkoff from year to year, unless revoked as hereinabove provided irrespective of whether I am or remain a member of the Union.

NOTICE REGARDING UNION SECURITY CLAUSE AND DUES DEDUCTION AUTHORIZATION

As an employee working under a UNITE HERE Local 8 agreement containing a union security clause, you are required, as a condition of employment, to pay dues or fees to the Union. This is the only obligation under the union security clause. You do not have to actually become a member of the Union. Individuals who are members pay dues while individuals who are nonmembers pay an equivalent fee. This fee, which is authorized by law, is your faire share of sustaining your union’s broad range of programs in support of you and your co-workers, but nonmembers may file objections to funding expenditures germane to the Union’s duties as collective bargaining agent. Nonmembers have the right to be given sufficient information to enable them to intelligently decide whether to object, and to be apprised of, the Internal Union procedures for filing objections. Individuals may obtain a description of the procedures, which must be followed to file such objections, and further information, by writing to UNITE HERE Local 8, Attention Office Manager at 5030 1st Avenue S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134.

Nonmember fee payers give up many benefits that only Union members receive. As a member you will have all the benefits and privileges of membership, including the right to fully participate in the internal activities of the Union, the right to attend and participate in membership meetings, the right to participate in the development of contract proposals and to participate in contract ratification and strike votes, the right to vote to set or raise dues and fees, the right to nominate and elect Union Officers, the right to run for Union office and for convention delegate, and the right to receive the international Union burial benefit. The Union Privilege Program of the AFL-CIO, available to members only, offers members such services as; reduced fee legal services, a prescription program with savings for long-term users of prescribed medicine, a mortgage program that allows Union members to receive reduced interest rates, a dental program, a lending program, and many other services available to Union members at lower rates.

The authorization for dues deduction is voluntary. If you do not wish the convenience of this payroll deduction but prefer to pay your dues and/or initiation fees directly to the Local Union office each month, you may do so. If you do not sign the dues deduction authorization you must then pay your dues and/or fees to the Local Union by the 10th of each month.

• Per-event dues are the higher of
  • $20 per month; OR
  • For each shift worked in the month, one-half (½) hour’s pay at governmental minimum wage applicable to the jobsite
• There is no cap on the amount of per-event dues a member might pay in a month.
• In months when per-event dues members do not work at all, dues are $1.

I understand that my selection of dues structure is not binding, but that if I change my selection from per event dues to regular monthly dues more than one time each calendar year, I will be required to pay an initiation fee in order to become or remain a Local 8 member.

*If form is submitted to Local 8 before the 20th of the month, change will take effect on 1st of month following signing.

*If form is submitted to Local 8 after the 20th of the month, change will take effect on 1st of month subsequent to month following signing.