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UAWD in the News: The UAW’s Deals With the Big Three Automakers Are Being Debated on the Shop Floor
Keith Brower Brown writes for Jacobin: The UAWD caucus organized “speak out” Zoom meetings for Big Three workers, which brought hundreds together. At a follow-up meeting, autoworkers in the caucus passed a resolution to “celebrate the record gains” while remaining...
UAWD in the News: The UAW Has Won a Historic Victory. So What Comes Next?
John Nichols writes for The Nation: When the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on October 30 with General Motors, the last of the Big Three automakers targeted by this fall’s 46-day strike, the union’s president, Shawn Fain, declared, “The result is...
UAWD in the News: Fain promises more gains for UAW in 2028 as ratification nears
Michael Martinez writes for Automotive News: While the union's tentative contract with Ford appeared easily headed for ratification, early voting was more mixed among workers at GM and Stellantis. Hourly employees at Flint Assembly in Michigan, one of GM's largest...
UAWD in Labor Notes: IATSE Members Launch Reform Caucus as Hollywood Strikes Wrap
Lisa Xu writes for Labor Notes: Dissatisfied with their union’s leadership and direction, a group of members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) is launching a reform caucus called CREW, or the Caucus of Rank-and-File Entertainment...
UAWD in the News: The Ghost of Reuther Past
Harold Meyerson writes for the American Prospect: Like the Reutherites, Fain and his cohorts had to wrest control of the UAW from an incumbent regime, though the lines of this conflict did not, at first glance, seem to be drawn around political concerns. After a...
UAWD in the News: How Autoworkers’ Democratic Tactics Reversed a Humiliating Loss
Lee Harris writes for the American Prospect: One of the more notable outcomes of the tentative contract agreement between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers, which earned workers 25 percent wage increases over four years, is the fate of a 5 million...
UAWD in the News: UAW’s “Life-Changing” Deal with Big 3 Automakers
Amy Goodman interviewed UAWD chair Scott Houldieson for Democracy Now: AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, Democracy Now! spoke to Scott Houldieson, a member of UAW Local 551, works at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, is on the steering committee, chair of Unite All Workers for...
UAWD in the News: Everything you need to know about the fight between autoworkers and the Big Three
Kim Kelly writes for Fast Company: Shawn Fain is the president of the United Auto Workers. Originally from Kokomo, Indiana, he’s been a member of the UAW since 1994 and joined the union while working as an electrician at Chrysler. After spending decades serving his...
UAWD in the News: “Your Body Suffers”: The Unremarkable Pain of an Auto-Assembly-Line Worker
Sarah Lazare writes for The Nation: Chris Viola, 40, is one of Carpenter’s coworkers, and has been active in Unite All Workers for Democracy, a rank-and-file movement within UAW to improve internal democracy and accountability. UAWD backed the presidential campaign of...
UAWD in the News: UAW President Shawn Fain Is Showing How to Build Working-Class Struggle
Paul Prescod writes for Jacobin: [Shawn] Fain could not have risen to leadership without the backing of a rank-and-file reform caucus and a crisis that bred opportunity. In 2018 the Justice Department began investigating corruption in the UAW and eventually unearthed...
Press Releases
UAWD statement on results of first day of vote tabulation
UAWD issues the following statement regarding the UAW direct elections referendum vote count, which began on Monday, November 29.
UAWD Statement of Support for Opel Eisenach Autoworkers
UAWD released the following statement of solidarity and support for Opel Eisenach workers.
UAWD Statement on Appointment of Martha Grevatt to Trustee
At the August 14th, 2021 UAWD Steering Committee meeting, Chairperson Scott Houldieson informed the committee that Brother Mike DiGiuseppe had sent in his resignation from his Trustee position, effective immediately. Per UAWD by-laws, “should a vacancy occur on the...
UAWD Communications with Monitor Neil Barofsky
UAWD is asking Monitor Neil Barofsky to create a level playing field for campaigning for the referendum vote. For decades, the deck has been stacked against UAW members agitating for reform within our union. The Administration Caucus has engaged not only in...
Press Release: Former UAW President Gary Jones Sentenced To Prison Today For Stealing UAW Funds
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) issues the following statement regarding the sentencing of Gary Jones, former President of the UAW, to prison for corruption: [Chicago, Illinois, June 10, 2021] – June 10, 2021 marks the saddest day in the history of the UAW....
UAWD Launches Nation-Wide Week of Action (May 24-28) to Win One Member, One Vote in the UAW
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) is launching a nation-wide Week of Action from May 24-28 to raise awareness of the upcoming UAW-wide referendum vote on switching to direct elections of top international union leaders, and to build support for “One Member, One...
Former UAW President, Dennis Williams, Sentenced To Prison For Stealing UAW Funds
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) issues the following statement regarding the sentencing of Dennis Williams, former President of the UAW International Union, to prison for corruption: Chicago, Illinois – Today former UAW president Dennis Williams was sentenced...
PRESS RELEASE — UAWD Files Motion To Intervene In Federal Case Between UAW and the United States
Read the press release here.
UAWD Files Motion To Intervene In Federal Case Between UAW and the United States
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) issues the following statement regarding our request to intervene in the federal case and implementation of the Consent Decree: Chicago, Illinois – In an effort to bring a voice for the rank and file into the processes laid out...
Former UAW Region 5 CAP President Edward Nick Robinson Sentenced To Prison For Stealing UAW Funds
Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) issues the following statement regarding the sentencing of Edward N. Robinson, former President of the UAW Region 5 Community Action Program PAC, to prison for corruption: Chicago, Illinois – In another example of corruption in...
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