Local 901 Sunshine Fund Guidelines

The Sunshine Fund is an effort to connect with, recognize, and support our members and the people we represent during major life events. Below are the criteria for qualifying events, who counts as a “family member”, and what we will send on behalf of the membership.

If you, or anyone you know qualify for the sunshine fund, please send an email to any member of the Local Executive Team.

  • Qualifying events are based on FMLA, with some additions:  
    • The birth of a child or placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care, 
    • The care for a family member who has a serious health condition/event, 
    • A serious health condition that makes the employee unable to work,
    • Family member’s deployment as a member of the US Military
    • Marriage or union
    • Death of a family member
  • “Family member” as defined by our contract: an employee’s
    • child, foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian, or child to whom the employee stands or stood in loco parentis;
    • spouse or registered domestic partner;
    • sibling, stepsibling, or foster sibling;
    • biological, adoptive, or foster parent, stepparent, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child;
    • grandchild, foster grandchild, or stepgrandchild;
    • grandparent or stepgrandparent;
    • a child of a sibling of the employee;
    • a sibling of the parents of the employee; or
    • a child-in-law or sibling-in-law;
    • any of the family members listed above of a spouse or registered domestic partner;
    • any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship; and
    • up to one individual annually designated by the employee.
  • Non-members
    • What we will send: an appropriate greeting card
      • If the requester does not have the address, the local exec team* will ask the union for an address
      • Situations where neither the requester nor the union has the address will be handled on a case-by-case basis
  • Members
    • What we will send: <$50 gift basket
      • MAPE central will provide address information to local exec team members*

* Local exec team members have all signed the MAPE data protection form and will not share outside the need for sending gift baskets/cards

If you have any questions, please reach out to any member of the Local Executive Team.