From the Headlines: UAW Boosts Staff Pensions, Monitor Flags Spending as Election Campaigns Begin

From the Headlines: UAW Boosts Staff Pensions, Monitor Flags Spending as Election Campaigns Begin

by | Jul 20, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Detroit Bureau, Direct Elections, Joe Szczesny, One Member One Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky

From the Detroit Bureau: With a potentially close race for the presidency looming this fall, United Auto Workers President Ray Curry signed a memorandum boosting the pensions of members of the Staff Council, the UAW in-house union for UAW representatives responsible...
UAWD in Labor Notes: UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections

UAWD in Labor Notes: UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections

by | Jul 20, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Direct Elections, Jonah Furman, Labor Notes, One Member One Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAWD in the News

Jonah Furman writes for Labor Notes:  Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers (“one member, one vote”) in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates...
Judge OKs direct elections for UAW president, other top leaders

Judge OKs direct elections for UAW president, other top leaders

by | Feb 1, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Detroit Free Press, Direct Elections, One Member One Vote, Referendum Vote, UAW Corruption Scandal

United Auto Workers members will get the chance to have a direct say in who leads the union going forward.  A federal judge signed off Monday on the results of the referendum election held last year as a result of the deal with the government resulting from the...
Revolutions Per Minute Podcast: Winning 1M1V and SRU-UAW winning recognition

Revolutions Per Minute Podcast: Winning 1M1V and SRU-UAW winning recognition

by | Dec 30, 2021 | Direct Elections, One Member One Vote, Referendum Vote, Revolutions Per Minute Podcast, Student Researchers, Student Researchers United-UAW, University of California

Check out the latest episode of the Revolutions Per Minute Podcast on the fight for a democratic UAW that actually fights for its members. Also, Student Researchers United-UAW discuss how a strike threat won recognition for their 17,000 member union. Listen to the...