GET INVOLVED IN YOUR UNION!
You are the Union and the Union is YOU!
Member involvement makes the wheels of COGS turn: every member giving a little creates our strength. Committee activity is one important, enjoyable, and easy way to contribute... consider joining a COGS committee! Work with COGS members from across campus!
Below is a list of committees and their contact people. Please e-mail (cogs@cogs.org) or call COGS at 337-5074 to inquire about or join a committee!
| Committee | Activities | Suggested time commitment | Contact |
| Press & Publicity | Keeps members up to date on the union's activities and documents the life of the organization by maintaining the union web site, serving as a liason to the media, distributing posters, and publishing the union newsletter, COGNITION. |
1 hr./ month for Poster Crew (put up posters on COGS bulletin boards) and/or... 3-4 hrs./month for press releases and COGNITION production or website maintenance. |
luke-stacks@uiowa.edu |
| Unity | Helps to ensure that differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, and class origin do not divide us, as our struggle for dignity and improved working conditions unites us. | 3-4 hrs./month |
kari.ert@gmail.com |
| Organizing | Informs non-members about COGS and encourages them to join. Organizers visit non-members in their offices and homes, assist stewards in organizing departments, and produce organizing literature. | 3-4 hrs./month |
mjlavin80@gmail.com |
| Political Action | Tracks and alerts members to proposed legislation and other political action that will impact us and all public employees, and organizes our response. | 2-3 hrs./month |
matthew-boswell@uiowa.edu |
| Labor Solidarity | Builds bonds and communication channels with other unions, with campuses across the nation, and with the larger labor movement. | 3-4 hrs./month |
evebottando@yahoo.com |
| Social | Plans events that build understanding and friendships among members across departments, nationalities, and backgrounds, and thus solidifies the social foundation that helps keep the union vital and growing. | 1-2 hrs./month |
rachel-l-carter@uiowa.edu |
