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UAWD Committees
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Organizing Commitee
We are building support for a democratic, militant UAW through organizing our coworkers on the shop floor. Our first task is supporting the contract fight across Big 3 Locals!
Electric Vehicle Committee
We need a worker-led strategy to set the terms of the EV transition, instead of letting our employers call the shots.
International Solidarity Committee
We are building international solidarity, with a particular focus on engaging with the independent union movement in Mexico.
Education Committee
We organize member education and training ranging from UAW history to union leadership skills.
Diversity Committee
We educate around and respond to all forms of oppression, particularly racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and ableism that affect UAW members.
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Committee Updates
Historian Erik Loomis on the Bisbee Deportation of 1917
Mine owners in Bisbee, Arizona round up Wobblies, Mexicans, and anyone they found suspicious and drop them into the New Mexico desert. Let's talk about the Bisbee Deportation and the huge violations of workers' rights in World War I. The summer of 1917 was tense in...
Mexican labor activist fights ban from border state, cites trade pact protections
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto on Wednesday said she has appealed a judge’s order that she not enter the northern state of Tamaulipas, arguing it violates a new trade deal by stopping her from fighting for workers’ rights. Read the article...
Historian Erik Loomis on the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935 -- FDR signed the National Labor Relations Act via Historian, Erik Loomis "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation gave workers a fair shake from...
A Mexican Labor Lawyer Denounced U.S. Pressure to Reopen Maquiladoras. Then She Was Jailed.
Throughout the month of May, as the coronavirus pandemic was peaking in Mexico, Susana Prieto, a top Mexican labor attorney who has been defending workers' rights for over three decades, was making her voice heard. During a series of public demonstrations in the state...
UAW HISTORY: Shrinking UAW Tries to Steer a Steady Course Through Troubled Times (1982)
Some experts, including dissidents within and labor analysts on the outside, raise a larger issue: whether the union understands that a fundamental restructuring of the auto industry worldwide is occurring. These experts, including Harley Shaiken, a work specialist at...
Mexican labor activist Susana Preito released from jail as trade deal takes effect
Mexican labor attorney and independent union leader Susana Prieto was released from jail on Wednesday after her arrest nearly a month ago on charges of inciting violence at a workers protest, state prosecutors said. A judge's order for her release came hours after the...
