ANNOUNCING THE FORMATION OF A TEMP WORKERS'UNION
in the San Francisco Bay Area

NEEDED: Temp Workers committed to organizing a 
Temp Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of
the World (IWW), and a worker-run, non-profit 
temp agency.

The IWW has never been run by the corrupt or power hungry. It doesn't have 
any paid union officials getting rich off your dues. The Temp Workers' Union (TWU)
will be run democratically, not by a president or any other boss. Each skill 
group within the TWU will set its own rates of compensation, will test each 
other's skill level, will rate the employers and decide which they will and 
won't work for, and will teach and learn from each other anything the group 
deems necessary. The skill groups will subdivide into caucuses of 5-20 workers, 
who will align on geographical, time or social lines, or any others the temps 
themselves desire. 

Each skill group will elect one of its members to staff the main office, at a 
pay rate equivalent to that which others of the same skill group make. The TWU 
shall run its temp agency under the control of the workers themselves, as a 
non-profit/not-for-profit organization. This will call for the kind of 
continuity that a "permanent" staff is called for-- but staff can be held 
accessible and accountable by subjecting such staffing positions to a majority 
vote, and mechanisms for recall. 

The TWU is not merely a mechanism to help you struggle for higher wages-- the 
higher wages are built into its structure. A living wage is yours by right. This 
union exists to teach some, and reaffirm to others, the fact that we run this 
world, this country, our jobsites and our very own lives! In practicing this 
while securing ourselves livelihoods, we can plainly demonstrate this deeper 
truth to ourselves and others, too.

In the first stage of this project, the TWU will serve both the workers who want 
to be temp workers and those who are forced by the lack of full-time jobs to 
work temporarily. Therefore, we will charge no changeover fee to anyone who 
offers a more permanent job to any of our members who accept it. It is our hope 
that your experience with the TWU will offer you the kind of confidence in 
yourself and those you work with that will carry over into the next workplace, 
and indeed, wherever else you may work. 

If you can run your own union, and run your own non-profit/not-for-profit temp 
agency, you can do anything you want! And together, we can do things that we 
cannot do alone. We have the ball rolling-- won't you lend a hand? 


TO FIND OUT MORE about the TWU and/or the IWW,
and to GET INVOLVED or JUST HELP OUT-- 

leave a message at (415) 789-8003, or,

call 863-9627  Saturdays 1:30- 5:30