UAWD in the News: As Big 3 Negotiations Loom, Belvidere Closure Shows Automakers Still Using Same Playbook
Local 31 trustee and UAWD member Nick Livick writes for Labor Notes: The UAW just wrapped up a historic election where members got to vote directly for their top leaders for the first time in the union’s history. The rank and file voted for change and a more militant...
Autoworkers and Academics: To Quote Maya Angelou, “We Are More Alike, My Friends, Than Unalike.”
Nomadic employees. Expanding ranks of “permanent temps.” Different tiers of pay for the same work. Standard operating procedures for Big Three? Yes—and also for Big Academics, including many of the nation’s largest universities.
The Electric Vehicle Transition Needs a Worker-Led Strategy
UAWD’s Electric Vehicle Organizing Committee responds to the UAW’s statement about the new Ford battery plant in Marshall, Michigan: As the transition toward electric vehicles accelerates, we are seeing more and more how corporations are using it to divide...
Solidarity with Mexican Auto Workers Fighting for Democracy
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...