by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 3, 2024 | UAWD Membership Meetings, UAWD Membership Resolutions
Below is a summary of UAWD’s Membership Meeting on March 3, 2024. The UAWD Steering Committee announced the first ever UAWD Convention in Detroit from September 27 to 29, 2024. UAW President Shawn Fain and many other UAW members and leaders will be speaking, and all...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Feb 25, 2024 | UAWD in the News
Chris Bohner writes for Jacobin: Are labor unions democratic, and does it even matter? The recent transformation of the United Auto Workers (UAW), led by newly elected president Shawn Fain and the rank-and-file caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy, has provoked new...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Feb 10, 2024 | UAW History
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...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Jan 4, 2024 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Administration Caucus, Direct Elections, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Historical UAW Movements, In These Times, New Directions Movement, One Member One Vote, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW History, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
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....
by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 10, 2023 | Alex Press, Jacobin, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAWD in the News
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...
