by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 29, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Detroit Free Press, UAWD in the News
In a dramatic reversal shortly before the close of the UAW’s 38th constitutional convention in Detroit, delegates on Thursday voted to undo a $100-per-week strike pay increase approved earlier. That means the strike pay will go back to the $400 per week that had been in place at the start of the convention rather than the $500 per week delegates approved on Wednesday. However, a change that allows the strike pay accrual to start on the first day of a strike rather than the eighth day was allowed to stand.
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 28, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Detroit Bureau, UAWD in the News
Joseph Szczesny writes for the Detroit Bureau: …the Administrative Caucus, which has controlled the union’s internal politics for decades, had to scramble to fight off a large block of reform minded delegates. The biggest clash revolved around strike pay, which...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 28, 2022 | Constitutional Convention 2022
Yesterday, delegates voted to amend our Constitution to begin accruing strike pay on day 1 of a strike and raise weekly strike pay—one of UAWD’s priorities for this year’s Convention. Today, we need to vote to keep the interest earned on the strike fund WITHIN...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 27, 2022 | Constitutional Convention 2022, UAWD Statements & Press Releases, Video
This morning, delegates at the 38th UAW Constitutional Convention voted to amend our Constitution to start strike pay on day 1—one of UAWD’s priorities for this year’s Convention. UAWD member, John Deere worker, and Local 281 delegate Nolan Tabb made a...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jul 27, 2022 | AFL-CIO, Autoworkers, Constitutional Convention 2022, Mexico, Support the Struggle
UAWD has supported international solidarity since our founding in 2018. Right now, our union siblings in Mexico at SINTTIA, La Liga, and SNITIS—independent, democratic unions organizing in the auto sector in Mexico—need our support. Last year, Mexican workers at...
