TABLE 3—
Union | Organizer Job Title | Employee Job Title |
Teamsters 117 | Director of organizing and strategic campaigns | Warehouse employee |
SEIU 775 | Organizer | Home-care worker |
SEIU 925 | Two organizers | Home child-care worker |
UFCW 21 | Organizer | Grocery store worker |
UNITE HERE 8 | Director of strategic affairs | Housekeeper |
Laborers 242 | Business manager | Construction worker |
Note. SEIU = Service Employees International Union; UFCW = United Food and Commercial Workers; UNITE HERE = Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union. Interviews conducted between January and April 2015 with Puget Sound–area labor union staff and industry employees to supplement our understanding of the role of labor union contracts in protecting employee health.