by UAWD | May 5, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Collective Bargaining, Organizing, TDU, Video
In this Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) panel discussion, hear from members of UAWD and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) about our upcoming contract fights! The Teamsters’ UPS contract, expiring July 31, is the largest private sector union...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 31, 2023 | Bargaining Convention 2023, Collective Bargaining, Electric Vehicles
The 2023 UAW Special Bargaining Convention was held this week in Detroit—here’s what happened. For more detailed information, check out UAWD’s Convention HQ or follow along on Twitter. Resolutions Committee Report Before the convention, all Locals were...
by Justin | Jan 4, 2022 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, Education, NLRB, Organizing
Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act), employees have the right to communicate with other employees at their workplace about their wages.
by Justin | Jun 25, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Graduate Workers, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard’s graduate student union delivered a letter to University administrators Thursday morning signed by more than 500 graduate students pledging to organize a strike if contract negotiations between Harvard and the union are not resolved by June 30. “We hope that...
by Justin | Jun 3, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, GSOC-UAW 2110, New York University
“We are lucky at NYU to have a very strong union and we had a strong first contract,” Tova Benjamin, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at NYU, told me in a recent phone interview, “but that strong first contract wasn’t going to stay strong if we didn’t fight for all the...
by Justin | Apr 20, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Columbia University, Graduate Workers, GWC-UAW 2110
The Bargaining Committee for the Graduate Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers announced Monday that after over two years of bargaining with Columbia for the union’s first labor contract, it is ready to present the contract for a ratification vote. Read the article...