by UAWD Steering Committee | 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 Steering Committee | 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 Steering Committee | Nov 9, 2023 | IATSE, Labor Notes, Lisa Xu, UAWD in the News
Lisa Xu writes for Labor Notes: Dissatisfied with their union’s leadership and direction, a group of members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is launching a reform caucus called CREW, or the Caucus of Rank-and-File Entertainment...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Mar 24, 2023 | Graduate Workers, NLRB, Organizing, Petitions, Student Researchers, Support the Struggle, UE
UAW Region 9A Higher Education workers wrote a letter in solidarity with UE members against recent efforts by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to undermine their rights. Read the letter below, and add your...
by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 15, 2022 | In These Times, Labor History, UAW History, UAWD in the News, United Mine Workers (UMWA)
Steve Early writes for In These Times: Today, at a time when labor militants are again embracing a “rank-and-file strategy” to revitalize unions and change their leadership, the MFD’s unprecedented victory — and its turbulent aftermath — remains relevant and...
by Justin | Jan 25, 2022 | Jacobin, Organizing, Unions
Unions raise wages and benefits and increase job security. So, the fact that unionization rates are still in decline, despite some recent bright spots in worker militancy, is very bad news. Read the article here.
