At the UAWD Membership Meeting on April 27, 2025, a majority of UAWD members voted in favor a resolution to dissolve the organization. Due to ongoing disagreements, the UAWD Steering Committee recommended this course of action to the UAWD membership, so that members could pursue differing visions in separate organizations.
UAWD has stopped accepting donations. Our remaining funds will be donated across organizations proposed in the resolution to dissolve. These include other young reform caucuses (Federal Unionists Network, Essential Workers for Democracy, IATSE Caucus of Rank-and-file Entertainment Workers, IBEW Caucus of Rank-and-file Electrical Workers), immigrant legal aid, and the Mexican independent union movement.
We are proud of the major transformations we made to our union through UAWD. Together, we contributed to the decisive victory in 2021 of One Member One Vote, ensuring that UAW members could vote directly for the union’s top officials, and to the election of President Shawn Fain and the Members United slate in 2023. These achievements helped usher in a new era in the new UAW.
UAWD Chair Scott Houldieson and other leaders from UAWD’s Steering Committee will be inaugurating a new, union-wide network to carry on the work of transforming our union. We will continue the vision that once inspired many to join our movement and take the lessons we have learned from UAWD into our next project, UAW Member Action. We invite all who share this vision to join us.
UAW Member Action will focus on urgent priorities for the labor movement: organizing to elect leaders committed to building a militant, democratic union; fighting back against attacks on basic labor rights; safeguarding direct elections in the UAW constitution; and preparing for 2028 — when contracts with the Big 3 automakers and other employers nationwide will expire.