by UAWD | Jan 4, 2024 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Administration Caucus, Direct Elections, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Historical UAW Movements, In These Times, New Directions Movement, One Member One Vote, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAW Corruption Scandal, UAW History, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News
Barry Eidlin writes for In These Times: None of what Fain’s administration has accomplished in its few short months in office would have been possible without the organizing that UAWD did first to win the right to vote, then to get the Members United slate elected....
by UAWD | Dec 10, 2023 | Alex Press, Jacobin, Shawn Fain, TDU, Teamsters, Teamsters, UAWD in the News
Alex Press interviewed Anthony Rosario, an organizer with Teamsters Local 804 and Teamsters for a Democratic Union, for Jacobin. Rosario said: Corporations need to take a look at what’s happening. I know that they don’t care, but they have to know that the...
by UAWD | Jun 15, 2023 | TDU, UAWD in the News
Ege Yumuşak (former member of Local 5118) wrote for the Boston Review: From the Chicago Teachers’ Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators and the Union Power caucus of the United Teachers Union Los Angeles to the Teamsters for a Democratic Union and UAW’s own Unite All...
by UAWD | May 5, 2023 | 2023 Big 3 Contract Fight, Collective Bargaining, Organizing, TDU, Video
In this Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) panel discussion, hear from members of UAWD and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) about our upcoming contract fights! The Teamsters’ UPS contract, expiring July 31, is the largest private sector union...
by Justin | Oct 15, 2021 | Labor Notes, One Member One Vote, Referendum Vote, TDU, Teamsters
For decades, members of the United Auto Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, have struggled to turn their iconic unions into democratic organizations that are ready to fight the boss. This November, two landmark campaigns — the 2021 Teamsters...
by Justin | Oct 15, 2021 | In These Times, TDU, Teamsters
TDU organizer Ken Paff regards this election as “the opening of a door.” “We want a union that isn’t telling members what can’t be done,” he said. “We want one that says, ‘When members want to fight, we’ll be there with them shoulder to shoulder.’”Gre g Kerwood,...
