** Reasons To Join  **

• Access to full-time professional Staff Representatives and their experience to represent you.
• Professional negotiators to conduct contract negotiations with your employer.
• Grievance representation by an experienced Union Representative.
• Arbitration hearings representation.
• National Labor Relations Board representation if needed.
• Regular on the job visits by a Union Representative.
• Access, when required, to a leading law firm in grievance matters.
• Stewards school training.
• Strike Fund access, if needed, from the UFCW.
• Pension plan access to the RWDSIU and/or the UFCW Pension when negotiated in your contract.
• UFCW and RWDSU International Scholarships.
• New England Joint Board / Thomas J. Leone Scholarships.
• Local Union membership meetings in your area where your voice can be heard.
• Union Office centrally located in Leominster, Massachusetts staffed with professionals to serve you.
• Health and Safety training.
• Job Security.
• All RWDSU members and retirees are eligible to participate in the Union Privilege Program.  Some of the benefits of this program are; a union credit card, legal services, union member mortgage & real estate financing, life insurance and many more.
• Access to comprehensive medical, dental, life and short term disability insurance administered by our own Heath & Welfare Fund, when negotiated in your contract.