AROUND THE UAW
HarperCollins Workers Go On Strike Because “Passion Doesn’t Pay the Rent”
Yesterday, workers at the “Big Four” publisher HarperCollins went on a one-day strike, protesting the company’s refusal to agree to a fair contract. The workers, who have organized with United Auto Workers Local 2110, are demanding liveable wages, better family leave...
Supporting Case New Holland Workers on Strike
The UAWD Mutual Aid Fund brought $2,000 in grocery cards to UAW Local 180 in Racine, Wisconsin, on strike against Case New Holland. UAWD Mutual Aid Fund brought $2,000 in grocery cards to UAW Local 180 in Racine, WI on strike against Case New Holland. UAWD Chairperson...
Reformers in the UAW Descend on Detroit for Historic UAW Convention
Detroit, Michigan – Approximately nine hundred UAW delegates, elected by the membership of their respective local unions, are arriving in Detroit to attend the historic UAW 38th Constitutional Convention. For the first time ever, candidates nominated at the Convention...
UAWD in the News: UAW Retiree Eligibility for Office to Create Convention Friction
Ian Kullgren writes for Bloomberg Law: When the United Auto Workers convention in Detroit starts next week, the two most recent elected presidents won’t be there. They’ll remain in federal prison. And for the first time, the union will select its next leader through a...
From the Headlines: HarperCollins Union Workers Hit the Picket Line
John Maher writes for Publishers Weekly: At 9:00 a.m. on a day expected to reach a heat index of 99˚F, roughly 100 HarperCollins union workers and others were already on the picket line for the first time in decades in front of the publisher's headquarters in...
From the Headlines: UAW Boosts Staff Pensions, Monitor Flags Spending as Election Campaigns Begin
From the Detroit Bureau: With a potentially close race for the presidency looming this fall, United Auto Workers President Ray Curry signed a memorandum boosting the pensions of members of the Staff Council, the UAW in-house union for UAW representatives responsible...
From the Headlines: Dia Art Foundation staff announce intentions to unionise
The Dia Art Foundation is the latest cultural institution to join the growing unionising movement. The United Auto Workers (UAW) released a press release today (18 July) further outlining the staff’s reasons for unionising, which includes low wages, job insecurity and...
UAWD in Labor Notes: UAW Delegates Head to Convention and Prepare for First Direct Elections
Jonah Furman writes for Labor Notes: Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers (“one member, one vote”) in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates...
From the Headlines: Federal UAW monitor says leaders obstructing watchdog rooting out corruption
Robert Snell and Breana Noble write for The Detroit News with an update on the UAW leadership corruption scandal: United Auto Workers officials are interfering with a government watchdog tasked with rooting out corruption in one of the nation’s most influential and...
UAWD in the Detroit News: UAW’s future at stake at historic convention in Detroit
Nearly 1,000 United Auto Workers members will descend upon downtown next week for the union’s quadrennial constitutional convention — an event with major implications at a pivotal time for one of the country’s largest and most influential unions.
