On May 26, 2004 the majority of the Town of North Attleborough’s mid-management employees voted to join the United Steelworkers.

Back in February after four years without a wage increase, several of these employees realized that they would go another year without a raise. More importantly they didn’t know if their jobs would survive the fiscal budget cuts going by the Republican Governor of Massachusetts. They recognized too that the union workers of North Attleborough continued to receive annual raises, and had job security with their union contracts. Why not them too? The situation was only getting worse. They knew they had to organize a union. When seeking what union to contact and how to do it, they asked their colleagues in the surrounding towns of Seekonk and Mansfield represented by the Steelworkers. We are proud to add North Attleborough to the growing numbers of public sector employees represented by the Steelworkers in Massachusetts.

District 4 represents the largest group of public sector employees within the Union’s United States. We continue to hear from public sector workers needing to organize their workplace and are eager to help them organize. We ask our members to reach out to unorganized workers in their surrounding city or town to encourage them to organize their workplace for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

Congratulations to the leadership and courage of North Attleborough mid-management employees for the foresight to organize for their future and the future of their co-workers.