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Work Conditions Quiz

Is it Time to Organize Your Workplace?

Try our Online Assessment quiz below to see if you and your co-workers can benefit from union representation

Interested in organizing your office?

Do you live in one of the following counties: Sangamon, Logan, Menard, Scott, Morgan, Pike, Brown, Schuyler, or Cass?

Do you work in a non-union workplace?

If you answered yes to these questions, you have come to the right place.

Teamsters Local 916 represents over 4,200 members throughout the State of Illinois, with a focus on central Illinois. Our members work in several different fields of employment in both private and public sectors including such jobs as warehousemen, construction workers, janitors, security guards, truckers, law enforcement officers to professional technical employees like Civil Engineers, field technicians, and paralegals.

No matter how diverse the job classification, all Teamsters at Local 916 have at least one common bond: Effective and Strong Advocacy from Business Agents who secure wages, fair promotion, health coverage, job security, paid time-off and retirement income that leads the way in Central Illinois.

Online Assessment: Can your Workforce be Organized?

Take this quick assessment to see if you and your co-workers can benefit from our union representation.

1.	Does your employer sometimes promote employees based upon whom they know rather than their work performance?
Yes No Sometimes

2.	Does your employer require that you work mandatory overtime on short notice?
Yes No Sometimes

3.	Does your employer give you more responsibility and job duties without an increase in pay?
Yes No Sometimes

4.	Do you get regular wages increases that reward you for your true value of your work?
Yes No Sometimes

5.	Do you pay a premium for your health insurance?
Yes No

6.	Does the employer automatically charge you increases in health insurance premiums without any discussion from the employees?
Yes No

7.	Are people disciplined or fired for little or no reason?
Yes No Sometimes

8.	Are employees treated differently in disciplinary actions for the same conduct?
Yes No Sometimes

9.	Do you have a pension package that will enable you retire when you turn 62?
Yes No

10.	Do you feel that you are listened to and valued by your employer?
Yes No Sometimes