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Local 3 Membership Meeting: May 14, 2025
LOCAL 3 UNION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2025, 4:30 and 6:30PM
ALL SAINTS CHURCH - 230 East 60th Street
(Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
AGENDA
Local 3 Activities
Local 3 Contract Book
General Wage Increase - 2025 (GWI)
Open Enrollement for Medical Coverage for the 2025-2026 Plan Year
Storeworkers Security Plan
370 7th Avenue, Suite 501
New York, NY 10001
Tel (212) 308-4800 – Fax (718)-267-7406
Shaun Kavanagh, Director
OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR MEDICAL COVERAGE FOR THE 2025 -2026 PLAN YEAR
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Benefits Annual Enrollment is May 19 – June 3, 2025.
YOU MUST ENROLL OR RE-ENROLL in a medical plan, Health Savings Account (HSA) and/or Flexible Spending Account (FSA), if eligible, to ensure you have coverage for the 2025-2026 plan year beginning July 1.
Enrollment can be done on-site or by calling Macy’s HR 1-800-234-6229.
If you have any questions, please contact the Storeworkers Security Plan at 212-308-4800 or visit the Plan Office.
INSCRIPCION ABIERTA PARA LA COBERTURA MEDICA PARA EL ANO DEL PLAN 2025 Y 2026
Apunte en su calendario: Beneficios Anuales La Inscripcion es del 19 de Mayo al 3 de Junio de 2025
Debe inscribirse o reinscribirse en un plan medico, una Cuenta de Ahorros para la Salud (HSA) o una Cuenta de Gastos Flexibles (FSA),
Si es elegible, para asegurar su cobertura para el ano del plan 2025-2026, que comienza el 1 de Julio.
La inscripción puede realizarse en la tienda o llamando al departamento de Recursos Humanos de Macy’s al 1-800-234-6229. Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con el plan de Seguridad para Trabajadores de Tiendas al 212-308-4800 o visite la Oficina del Plan (SWSP).
Local 3 Election Results
Childcare Grant Open House
Need help paying for quality childcare and day camp? The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project helps working and moderate-income families in New York City’s five boroughs qualify for subsidized child care and day camp for children up to age 13. Families must live or work in New York City and each parent in the household must work at least 20 hours per week.
Come to Local 3’s open house with questions or to apply: February 26 & March 6 | 11 AM - 5:30 P @Bloomingdale’s, 10th Floor. More info on the flyer below!
Local 3 Notice of Election
Subscribe to the Digital RWDSU Record!
The award-winning official newspaper of the RWDSU, which reports on the activities of the union and explores issues important to RWDSU members will now be available in your inbox. All you have to do is sign up here: www.rwdsu.org/newrecord
Tax Prep for Local 3 Members
Local 3 is partnering with Bethpage Federal Credit Union to offer free tax preparation to members earning less than $67K a year. Learn more below; make an appointment by clicking here: https://bit.ly/Local3FreeTaxPrep
Local 3 Membership Meeting: February 10, 2025
LOCAL 3 UNION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025, 4:30 and 6:30PM
ALL SAINTS CHURCH - 230 East 60th STREET
(Between 2nd and 3rd AVENUES)
AGENDA
Local 3 Activities
Local 3 Contract Book
Good and Welfare
Local 3 Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
This month, Americans everywhere salute the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Dr. King's legacy has special meaning. We take special pride that, in 1968, the RWDSU was the first union anywhere to negotiate a contract guaranteeing Dr. King's birthday as a paid holiday.
Dr. King saw the Civil Rights struggle and the labor movement as closely linked. He was a constant ally of union activists and most have forgotten that Dr. King was in Tennessee to support a Living Wage for Sanitation Strikers on that terrible April day in 1968 when he was slain at the age of 39.
"Our needs are identical with Labor's needs: decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, and health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children, and respect in the community. That is why negroes support Labor's demands and fight laws which curb Labor. That is why the Labor-hater and the Labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth," Dr. King said in a speech in 1961.
In reflecting on the life and work of Dr. King, the RWDSU recognizes the fight he began is not over until equality for all is a reality, and it is up to our generation of RWDSU members to complete his mission.
Local 3 Notice of Nominations
March 2025 Local 3 Elections
Local 3 Membership Meeting: December 9, 2024
Join Local 3 for our
UNION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2024, 4:30 and 6:30PM
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, 230 East 60th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves)
AGENDA:
Good and welfare
Holiday open house party
Local 3 Membership Meeting: September 30, 2024
Join Local 3 for our
UNION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024, 4:30 and 6:30PM
ALL SAINTS CHURCH, 230 East 60th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves)
AGENDA:
Update on union business and activities
Good and welfare
Free ESL Classes for Local 3 Members
Aprenda Ingles! Local 3 members are eligible to join free ESL classes at the RWDSU offices (370 Seventh Ave, 14th floor) on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, 6-9 PM, from October 22 to December 18, 2024.
Register at www.Tinyurl.com/ZW3S7BZV or call 212-684-5300.
Join Local 3 for the 2024 NYC Labor Day Parade!
Local 3 Office Is Moving!
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
On July 11th, the Local 3 Union office will be relocating to the RWDSU offices at 370 7th Avenue, 14th floor. Please be aware that Union business will be interrupted from Thursday, July 11th to Friday, July 12th. We will resume normal operation on Monday, July 15th, 2024.
Fraternally,
Shaun Kavanagh, President
James Eisenberg, Secretary-Treasurer
TAKE ACTION: Urge Governor Hochul to Sign the Retail Worker Safety Act Into Law
Our safety has no price tag! The Retail Worker Safety Act passed the New York state legislature this session, and now Governor Hochul has the chance to enact common-sense safety protections for retail workers and the customers we serve. This urgently needed law would mandate preventative safety provisions, by requiring corporate retail employers to adopt a violence prevention plan, train workers in de-escalation and active shooters procedures, and install life-saving panic buttons throughout workplaces for those large employers meeting the threshold.
Email Governor Hochul TODAY and urge her to sign the Retail Worker Safety Act into law: https://bit.ly/RWSAFETY
Local 3 Celebrates the 4th of July
Local 3 wishes all our members a Happy 4th of July! We hope everyone enjoys the holiday with their loved ones.
Local 3 Celebrates Juneteenth
Every year on June 19, we celebrate the end of slavery here in the U.S. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last group of people enslaved in the southern U.S. were informed of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation. Local 3 wishes all our members a Happy Juneteenth and reconfirms our commitment to fighting for racial justice on the job!
