AFL-CIO STEWARD TRAINING SEMINAR
WELL ATTENDED
The Central Maryland AFL-CIO Council held its fourth seminar
in a series of collective bargaining subjects centering on steward training.
Sixty-three students from Frederick and Washington counties, representing
fourteen national/international unions, were challenged in a day long
session, at the UAW Local 171 Hall, Hagerstown, by instructor Dave Smith,
retired international United Auto Workers grievance handling instructor,
to increase their skills in representing their members at various levels
of the grievance process.
The class was divided into five different committees
and each was given a grievance to study and prepare  it
for submission and appeal within their company procedure. Each committee
presented oral argument of its case to the whole class. The agenda included
the duty of fair representation, legal rights of an employee, identification
of a grievance or a complaint, grievance investigation, assembling the
facts, past practice, grievance writing and presentation, record keeping,
and prelude to arbitration. Examination and comment of various collective
bargaining contracts presently in effect in Frederick and Washington counties.
The next seminar will be on arbitration. No date has been set. The council
presents, from time to time, seminars on various subjects relating to
the collective bargaining process. E.g. laws relating to health, transportation,
and local, state and federal governments.
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