by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 19, 2022 | Labor Notes, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Jenny Brown writes for Labor Notes: Democratic reformers within their unions floored everyone—not least the sleepwalking incumbents. In the Auto Workers, the Unite All Workers for Democracy caucus, formed in 2019, has notched amazing wins in its short existence. Last...
by Justin | Aug 2, 2022 | Administration Caucus, Constitutional Convention 2022, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
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...
by Justin | 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...
by Vail Kohnert-Yount | Jun 20, 2022 | Labor Notes, One Member One Vote
We were delighted to see so many UAW members participate in the Labor Notes conference this year! We learned about everything from new organizing from higher education workers in Local 2865 and Student Researchers United, to how to Vote NO on concessionary contracts...
by Justin | Feb 5, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Auto workers at a General Motors plant in central Mexico delivered a landslide victory to an independent union in a vote held February 1-2. It’s a major breakthrough for workers and labor activists seeking to break the vice grip of the employer-friendly unions...
by Justin | Jan 28, 2022 | Autoworkers, Dan DiMaggio, General Motors, International Solidarity, Labor Notes, Luis Feliz Leon, Mexico
Workers at a massive General Motors plant in central Mexico will vote in a landmark election next week to decide which union will represent the plant’s 6,500 workers. A victory by the independent union there would be a big step toward breaking the stranglehold of the...
