How do I join IUPA Local 6000?

Contact Bob Stitt (IUPA Local 6000 Business Representative) or your local representative and they will lead you through the very simple process.

Why is Local 6000 affiliated with IUPA?

The IUPA has been called the best by the Labor Relations Information Systems in bargaining for employees.  The Contracts that the IUPA negotiates far outweighs any other union in securing higher wages for employees, more leave time and better working conditions.  Since the decline in the economy, employees realize the importance of having a strong force behind them that will protect them when they need it most.  In addition, the IUPA offers member benefits that assist you and your family with discounts and services that range from auto insurance to cruises, from educational partners to insurance partners. 

Visit www.iupa.org for more information on the programs available.

Why should you join IUPA?

Take a look at the benefits of IUPA and compare these to what others unions offer.

Legal Representation-Every union claims to have some type of legal representation available to its members.  Let’s compare those claims with IUPA’s Full Service Legal Representation Program, the program from which IUPA Florida Members are benefiting.

What Do IUPA Florida Members Receive?

 IUPA Florida’s members have 24 hours access to on-site lawyers, IUPA’s legal representation covers all work related issues:

• Disciplinary matters       
• Grievances                        
• Shootings                                                           
• Contract Negotiations and Administration:
  • Collective Bargaining   
  • Arbitration  
  • Mediation
• Labor Relations

How Does IUPA measure up and serve its members informational needs?

 Today, only IUPA provides Law Enforcement with the many critical services that can be and are so valuable to all local law enforcement associations and their members. IUPA sponsors a range of seminars on issues of importance to its members. The union is able to provide expert assistance on work issues and strategies, organizing, labor law, the rights of police officers, wages   and benefits, and more. These activities, along with the research department's wage and benefits surveys, the many professional bulletins issued by the IUPA and more, have all combined to make the union the kind of full-service, comprehensive and effective force that was envisioned many years ago.                                                                                    

 The IUPA voluntarily complies with the Department of Labor's Management Reporting Act, thus keeping all of its finances and operations in full view and above board.  Membership is on a steady upward climb. Most importantly, the IUPA's success in recent years has established the union for what it was always intended to be: the principal voice of an advocate for America's law enforcement personnel.

 Is the IUPA and Local 6000 affiliated with the AFL-CIO?

Yes.  The IUPA was charted by the AFL-CIO in 1979.  Florida Local 6000 was chartered by the IUPA in March 2000.

What is the AFL-CIO?

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of  national and international labor unions.  The IUPA is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

The AFL-CIO union movement represents 11 million members, including 2.5 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more. 

The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.