Video: UAWD Interview with UAW Icon Paul Schrade
UAW Icon Paul Schrade talks about the importance of democracy in the union.
The PRO Act Means More Power For Union Members
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is historic legislation that will put power in the hands of workers and reverse decades of legislation meant to crush unions. The bill will completely change labor law as we know it and shift power away from CEOs to...
UE: Insubordination
In relation to insubordination, Stewards have a special status. The NLRB has ruled that “when stewards are engaged in representational activities they are considered equals with management.” This means that when Stewards are dealing with management as a...
1968: Municipal Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign
Fifty years ago, African-American sanitation workers in Memphis stood up for dignity, striking to demand recognition of their union — and their humanity. The strike pitted over a thousand sanitation workers, who as public-sector workers in the right-to-work state of...
Urge President Biden: Save Our Post Office! Sign the Petition!
Throughout the pandemic, postal workers have courageously and reliably fulfilled their mission to “bind the Nation together.” From vital medicines, to ecommerce and business mail, from distant greetings to holiday gifts, from Census forms to the 65 million mail-in...