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 Justin | Apr 7, 2021 | Education, UE
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...
by Justin | Apr 4, 2021 | UE
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...
by Justin | Dec 26, 2020 | Labor History, Organizing, UE
For unions in America, a fundamental problem is apathy. Members do not want to get involved, and a component of this is that there is not a sense of what the union stands for and what being in a union means. It may not be a coincidence that the book is published by...
by Justin | Dec 13, 2020 | Collective Bargaining, UE
A good steward is many things – an organizer, a negotiator, a counselor, a peacemaker and a troublemaker. But there are certain things that a steward must avoid at all costs: Read the article here.
by Justin | Dec 10, 2020 | President Joseph Biden, UE
Biden said some of the right things on trade and jobs during the campaign,” said UE General President Carl Rosen, “but we know he comes from the same corporate wing of the Democratic Party that gave us NAFTA and tried to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the...
