AROUND THE UAW
Calling All Reformers at Convention!
The 2022 UAW Constitutional Convention will be a historic opportunity to change our union for the better. All reformers–delegates, alternates, and guests–are invited to join us at Convention.
UAWD Stands with Union Members for Reproductive Justice
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) joins our union and the thousands upon thousands of workers who have taken to the streets to protest in denouncing the June 24 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade.
UAWD Wins Troublemaker Award at Labor Notes 2022
We were delighted to see so many UAW members participate in the Labor Notes conference this year! We learned about everything from new organizing from higher education workers in Local 2865 and Student Researchers United, to how to Vote NO on concessionary contracts...
Video: Call to Convention is Out! What You Need to Know
UAWD's Jamonty Washington (Local 7) and Chris Budnick (Local 862) explain what we need to know about delegates ahead of this year's Constitutional Convention in Detroit from July 25-28. Learn more at our delegate trainings in February! Register here.
Community celebrates, criticizes UC Berkeley mask mandate lift
Ending the mask mandate while COVID-19 cases remain common raised concerns for student academic employee union UAW 2865 members, according to UAW 2865 Berkeley recording secretary Samuel Chan. Vulnerable student employees, he added, would be harmed by the end of the...
Oshkosh Corporation Seeks Non-Union Labor to Build Postal Trucks
Oshkosh Defense plans to move the facility producing the vehicles to the anti-union state of South Carolina, away from the United Auto Workers–organized employees of Oshkosh in northeastern Wisconsin. Oshkosh told UAW workers for years that the USPS contract would not...
White Shirt Day and “The Birth of a Union”
White Shirt Day was started in 1948 by Sit-Down Striker Bert Christensen, as a way to remind the younger workers just what the veterans had gone through to win them health care, job security, paid vacations, and pensions. During the strike, GM cut off the heat in the...
CNHI & UAW to Negotiate New Labor Contract in April 2022
According to statements from union officials, United Auto Workers will begin negotiating a 6-year contract with CNH Industrial in early April of this year. UAW International Director of Public Relations Brian Rothenberg confirmed in an email that the union’s...
Graduate Employee Organization remains in a bargaining standstill
UMass Boston’s Graduate Employee Organization remains deadlocked in a drawn-out and intense bargaining process with the university for improved compensation, job security and more general support for GEO members. Since last speaking with The Mass Media in December, a...
ELMS reportedly refused to hire UAW members; hired off the street
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - The company that builds electric vehicles in Mishawaka found itself on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this week.In September, all appeared to be fine as the first electric delivery van of Electric Last Mile Solutions rolled off the...
