MASH
Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Organization

Union Representative

Based in Milwaukee, WI

 

The Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Union (MASH) represents roughly 1,200 cooks and cleaners, bartenders and baristas, servers and security guards, and more whose labor powers the hospitality industry. We are a growing union that organizes the unorganized while fighting for, winning and defending industry-leading contracts. We are a member-driven, democratic union. 

Compelling and critical campaigns, worker engagement, and our commitment to strong union contracts powerfully enforced make MASH an exciting place to create change and build power with workers in the hospitality industry Milwaukee. 

MASH is seeking a Union Representative to drive union contract monitoring, enforcement and implementation in a large workplace, and to build an educated, activated membership around defending the contract and fighting for improvements. 

The Union Representative is employed in the bargaining unit as a rank-and-file union member. They are directed by the principal officer of the union. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor contract compliance by the employer, rooted in knowledge of its provisions and application and the experience of workers at the worksite. 
• Enforce the contract, ranging from challenging employer non-compliance to investigating and pursuing grievances.
• Assist in implementation of the contract both administratively as well through direct problem-solving in the workplace, including fashioning equitable solutions with management
• Collaborate with union stewards and officers, other union staff and joint labor-management staff on external worker engagement, member recruitment and workforce development
• Worker engagement and relationship-building, leadership development and committee-building, member mobilization and worker recruitment into active involvement in their union
• Move workers to action and moving turf to build campaigns, through structure and organization that creates the power of strength in numbers
• Lead workers in struggle, organizing workers to take collective action
• Support other union-wide priorities and campaigns, e.g. living wage legislative campaign

Required Qualifications:

• Commitment to trade union values, economic justice, and worker power.
• Prior experience as a union steward or representative is preferable
• Organized and disciplined; diligent and tenacious; fearless in the face of management and righteously indignant over offenses to workers and their union contract
• Excellent listening, oral and written communication skills.
• Basic computer literacy and ability to learn the organization's tools (e.g. Google suite).
• Ability and willingness to work long and irregular hours, including nights and weekends.
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and balance priorities and urgency.
• Ability to be coached and trained, to be held accountable, and to struggle through difficulty.
• Resourcefulness, persistence, loyalty and integrity and strong skills in analysis, planning, time-management and problem-solving are a must

Compensation:
Competitive pay and benefits according to collective bargaining agreement 

Application Requirements:
A résumé should be sent to info@mashworkers.org with the subject line “Union Representative Application”; no cover letter is required but the email should briefly mention why you are interested in organizing with MASH to build the workers movement.