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Join UAWD for Our Second Annual Meeting
September 19, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Greetings UAWD members,
Last Thursday you should have received an email about the UAWD Annual Meeting to be held via Zoom on Sunday September 19, 2021 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, 1:00 PM Central Time, and 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
With organizing for the One Member One Vote referendum in full swing and ballots set to be mailed out in mid October, we cannot emphasize enough the importance of attending the Annual Meeting to help decide UAWD’s plans for moving forward.
If you haven’t already, please take a few minutes to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcOqhpzkvHtIcG23KDAauzu-NAGSvX8S-
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In addition to discussing plans for organizing to win the referendum, we will be considering the platform and bylaws resolutions that were attached to the email you received Thursday September 9th.
We will also have two special guest speakers at the meeting; Paul Schrade, former Region 6 Director, and John Palmer, Vice President of the Teamsters.
Paul Schrade has been a long-time advocate for direct elections of UAW International Officers. Early in Paul’s UAW career in the 1950’s, he was one of the first Presidents of UAW Local 887, representing North American Aviation workers in Los Angeles, CA. Paul was appointed to the International staff and served as Assistant to President Walter Reuther. He ran for Director of Region 6 and won. As Director, he was instrumental in bringing UAW assistance to the United Farm Workers in their struggle for unionization in the California’s vineyards. Paul was an early supporter of Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 campaign for President – a position not popular with the Administration Caucus — who were siding with Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 campaign. Paul was shot and gravely injured when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel.
John Palmer is an IBT Vice President for the Southern Region and member of Local 657 in San Antonio, Texas. A long time Teamsters for a Democratic Union member, Palmer joins the O’Brien-Zuckerman 2021 Slate as a candidate for IBT Vice President At-Large. Palmer has been a member of the Teamsters since 1987, when he started as a driver for ABF after serving in the US Army as a Medic.
In addition, the UAWD Steering Committee recently voted to start an Education Committee. The Education Committee will be pivotal to our success moving forward. We will be asking for volunteers for the Committee at the meeting next Sunday. If you are not able to join the meeting next Sunday but still would like to participate with the Education Committee, you can email us at [email protected] with your intention to be on the Education Committee.
If you need the platform or bylaws proposals sent to you again, just reply to this email and we will send them to you again.
In solidarity,
UAWD Steering Committee