UAWD in the News: UAW Convention/Militants open struggle against business unionism
UAWD Steering Committee member Martha Grevatt writes for Workers World: The recent 38th UAW Constitutional Convention demonstrated that the struggle over the union’s direction is still very much alive. As has been the case for decades, rank-and-file militants have...
UAWD on the Air with WDET: Historic moments, a little controversy mark UAW convention
Sascha Raiyn covered the UAW Convention for WDET, Detroit’s NPR Station, spotlighting UAWD and two of our members: Margaret Mock announced her candidacy for secretary treasurer at the convention. She is a member of Local 140 and works in the Warren Truck...
UAWD in Labor Notes: Auto Workers Turn a Corner for Strike Pay and Democracy
Jane Slaughter and Keith Brower Brown write for Labor Notes: Reformers in the Auto Workers won day one strike pay at the union’s constitutional convention in Detroit last week. They also forced open debate on the top concession that has weakened the union in the last...
UAWD in the New York Times: United Auto Workers Seek to Shed a Legacy of Corruption
Neal E. Boudette writes about this year’s UAW Constitutional Convention for the New York Times, quoting UAWD Steering Committee member Bill Parker: Now U.A.W. members have a chance to determine how much of a break from that past they want to make. In one of the...
UAWD in the Detroit Free Press: UAW delegates vote to kill strike pay increase in closing hours of convention
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.