From the Headlines: UAW Boosts Staff Pensions, Monitor Flags Spending as Election Campaigns Begin
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...
From the Headlines: Dia Art Foundation staff announce intentions to unionise
The Dia Art Foundation is the latest cultural institution to join the growing unionising movement. The United Auto Workers (UAW) released a press release today (18 July) further outlining the staff’s reasons for unionising, which includes low wages, job insecurity and...
UAWD in Labor Notes: UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections
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...
From the Headlines: Federal UAW monitor says leaders obstructing watchdog rooting out corruption
Robert Snell and Breana Noble write for The Detroit News with an update on the UAW leadership corruption scandal: United Auto Workers officials are interfering with a government watchdog tasked with rooting out corruption in one of the nation’s most influential and...
UAWD in the Detroit News: UAW’s future at stake at historic convention in Detroit
Nearly 1,000 United Auto Workers members will descend upon downtown next week for the union’s quadrennial constitutional convention — an event with major implications at a pivotal time for one of the country’s largest and most influential unions.