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UAWD in the News: Where Militant Unionists Come to Plan
Nelson Lichtenstein writes for The American Prospect about the 2024 Labor Notes conference: Members of organizations with a left-wing pedigree or internal reform movements, including the United Electrical Workers, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, plus...
UAWD Commemorates the Sit Down Strike of 1937 on White Shirt Day 2024
UAWD hosted a special event over Zoom on White Shirt Day in remembrance of the UAW Flint sit-down strike of 1936 and 1937. On Saturday, February 10, members joined to learn about how organizing builds worker power, from the Sit Down Strike of 1937 to the Stand Up...
UAWD in the News: Union Reformers Made Labor History in 2023. They’re Just Getting Started.
Barry Eidlin writes for In These Times: None of what Fain’s administration has accomplished in its few short months in office would have been possible without the organizing that UAWD did first to win the right to vote, then to get the Members United slate elected....
UAWD in the News: “Solidarity Is the Most Powerful Word in Labor, and You’re Seeing It This Year”
Alex Press interviewed Anthony Rosario, an organizer with Teamsters Local 804 and Teamsters for a Democratic Union, for Jacobin. Rosario said: Corporations need to take a look at what’s happening. I know that they don’t care, but they have to know that the...
UAWD in the News: The UAW Has Had a Big Year. They’re Preparing for an Even Bigger One.
Alex Press writes for Jacobin about how the UAW launched a historic strike at the Big Three in 2023—and how 2024 might be an even bigger year: The United Auto Workers (UAW) has had a historic year. Coming into 2023, the union had held its first-ever direct elections...
UAWD in the Detroit News: Approved UAW deals mark reshaped union
Breana Noble, Kalea Hall, and Hayley Harding write for The Detroit News: Chris Budnick, an 11-year employee at Ford working at the Kentucky Truck plant, voted yes on the deal, even though he would have liked to see a larger wage increase sooner and health care...
UAWD in the News: After a Long Defeat, Labor Is Rising from the Ashes
Stephen Franklin writes for In These Times: The recently elected heads of those two unions proclaimed unprecedented and seemingly risky contract demands because they had pitched themselves to their rank and file as new voices that would shake up their unions. This was...
UAWD in the News: The UAW Won Major Concessions from Each of the Big Three. Is it Enough?
Mindy Isser writes for In These Times: In 2008, amid the nation’s economic collapse, the UAW agreed to major concessions during contract negotiations, and it has struggled to fully recover. The union was also hampered by corruption, with more than a dozen officials...
UAWD in the News: The Ghost of Reuther Past
Harold Meyerson writes for the American Prospect: Like the Reutherites, Fain and his cohorts had to wrest control of the UAW from an incumbent regime, though the lines of this conflict did not, at first glance, seem to be drawn around political concerns. After a...
UAWD in the News: How Autoworkers’ Democratic Tactics Reversed a Humiliating Loss
Lee Harris writes for the American Prospect: One of the more notable outcomes of the tentative contract agreement between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers, which earned workers 25 percent wage increases over four years, is the fate of a 5 million...
UAWD in the News: UAW’s “Life-Changing” Deal with Big 3 Automakers
Amy Goodman interviewed UAWD chair Scott Houldieson for Democracy Now: AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, Democracy Now! spoke to Scott Houldieson, a member of UAW Local 551, works at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, is on the steering committee, chair of Unite All Workers for...
UAWD in the News: The UAW’s Amazing Win
Robert Kuttner writes for the American Prospect: The UAW’s stunning victory with Ford, which will soon translate into similar terms as the other two large automakers settle, is not only a win for the union's audacious new leader Shawn Fain. It’s a win for union...
UAWD in Labor Notes: Big 3 Focus on Auto Parts Centers in Strike Prep
Lisa Xu (formerly Local 5118) writes for Labor Notes: [Bill] Bagwell, who was previously the chairman of Local 174 and is also an elected convention delegate, says he’s as excited as he’s ever been about the direction of the union. He was a member of the reform...
UAWD in the News: ‘The Cost of Doing Nothing Is Much Higher’: Big Three Auto Workers Prepare to Strike
Luis Feliz Leon writes for Labor Notes: Two days before their contract expires at midnight Thursday, the Auto Workers (UAW) are poised to strike the Big 3 automakers—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis—to recoup concessions made over the past two decades, end tiers,...
UAWD in the News: Autoworkers may wage a historic strike against the Detroit 3
Marick Masters writes for the Michigan Advance: The UAW’s newly elected president, Shawn Fain, frequently denounces corporate greed and has proclaimed the union’s willingness to go on strike. In the past, the union has held strikes against one automaker at a time,...
UAWD in The American Prospect: The United Auto Workers Meet Electrification
Jarod Facundo wrote for The American Prospect about the Big Three's transition to electric vehicles: On September 14, the UAW master agreement with the “Big Three” of Ford, GM, and Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler), representing some 150,000 workers, will expire. In...
UAWD in Automotive News: New Leaders Add More Transparency to Talks
Paige Hodder writes for Automotive News: Scott Houldieson, a member of UAW Local 551 in Chicago and founding member of the union's Unite All Workers For Democracy reform caucus, said communication from previous leadership was "atrocious." That disconnect was felt...
UAWD in Labor Notes: Auto Workers Have Big Demands for the Big 3
Dan DiMaggio and Keith Brower Brown write for Labor Notes: [Shawn] Fain was elected in March on a slate backed by the reform movement Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), on a platform of “No corruption, no concessions, no tiers,” ending 70 years of one-party rule...
UAWD in the New York Times: From Detroit to Hollywood, New Union Leaders Take a Harder Line
Noam Scheiber wrote for the New York Times: [Shawn] Fain, who won his position in March, is the first president in the union’s history, dating back nearly 90 years, to be elected directly by its members. The change took place after a major corruption scandal engulfed...
UAWD in the News: The New UAW Is Ready to Fight the Big 3 Automakers
Alex Press writes for Jacobin: In years past, the negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big Three auto manufacturers — Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) — began with the union’s president shaking hands with the auto...
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