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The UE Policy page has been updated with the resolutions passed at last week's 78th UE Convention:
UE policy is set by rank-and-file delegates to our national convention in the form of resolutions that are discussed and debated on the convention floor.
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The president of the Association of Flight Attendants is calling on the labor movement to conduct a “general strike to end the government shutdown.”
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@BernieSanders
thanks UE Local 506 President Scott Slawson and the members of UE Locals 506 and 618 for "standing up, not just for workers in Erie, but for every worker in America" against corporate greed
#BernieInBrooklyn
#1u
#UnionStrong
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Delegates to UE's 76th Convention unanimously endorse
@BernieSanders
for President
#1u
#ueunion
#ue76th
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Congratulations to
@MITGradUnion
who won their NLRB election 1785 to 912 (with 178 challenged and 8 void ballots)!
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Hundreds of members of UE Local 506 marched “down the avenue” inside Wabtec’s Erie, PA facility today to make it clear to the company that they are willing to fight for the right to strike. 1/4
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Donations to the strike fund can be made at
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Graduate workers at Indiana University have been on strike since Wednesday, after they voted by 97.8 percent to strike for union recognition, in the face of the IU administration's refusal to recognize their union. Follow
@IndianaGrads
and
#IUONSTRIKE22
for more.
#1u
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Press Release: Demands Public Ownership of Railroads
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UE members joined a Pittsburgh demonstration on November 17 calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine.
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50 years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. (1/5)
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UE is one of seven national unions which announced the formation of the National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC) today, along with over 200 local unions. The aim of the network is to “end the death and devastation” in the Middle East… (1/3)
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Wabtec and UE Locals 506 and 618 announced today that they have reached an agreement to end the strike at the Company's Erie, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility. Full statement:
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Stanford graduate workers have won an amazing victory! 94% of workers have voted yes for a union ❤️🔥⚡️
@StanfordGWU
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We're happy to report that Refresco workers won their second union election by a margin of 113-88. Thanks to
@MorePerfectUS
for reporting on Refresco workers' struggle and the intense union-busting they overcame to win their union a second time.
NEW: Hundreds of mostly immigrant workers who make Tropicana & Gatorade vote to unionize today.
They were told to keep working & drink Gatorade if they got Covid.
Workers already won a union election last year, but Refresco forced a revote because voting opened 5 mins late.
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97% of grad workers have voted YES at JHU!!! 🎉⚡️
@TRUhopkins
✊ We believe this to be the highest yes vote total of any grad worker NLRB election!!
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The graduate workers at Cornell University have won their union election!! 96% of graduate workers--a total count of 1,873 to 80--at Cornell University said yes to a union with UE. (1/4)
THE RESULTS ARE IN, and we think you’ll like them: We WON 1873-80! That’s a 96% majority!
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UE Locals 506 and 618 worked long into Tuesday morning and were not able to convince the company to negotiate an acceptable short term agreement that preserves the wages, benefits, and working conditions of GE/Wabtec employees.
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The private owners of our nation’s Class 1 railroads have shown themselves utterly incapable of facing the challenge of the climate crisis, dealing fairly with their own workers, or even meeting the most basic needs of their customers.
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“As a union that stands for equality, social justice, human and labor rights, and international solidarity, we unite with unions and people of goodwill around the world in calls for justice and peace.”
Read the full statement below ⬇️
"We join the calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less."
Read the full statement here:
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Over the past two weeks, UE members have been taking action to demand a permanent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. (1/10)
Read about more actions here:
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UE unequivocally condemns the removal of Bolivia’s elected president Evo Morales by the military on Sunday, and the violence carried out by the military and right-wing paramilitary forces against Indigenous people and political activists in that country.
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“What the UE is about, what our campaign about, is saying that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world we can have a nation where all of our people live with security and dignity.”
@BernieSanders
at
#ue76th
Convention
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UE is proud to announce the publication of a new booklet,
#ThemAndUsUnionism
. It is time for the broader labor movement to return to the sort of class-struggle unionism that established the CIO and which UE has continued for over eight decades.
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UE Locals 506 and 618 strike wabtec locomotive plant in
#EriePA
demanding green jobs. Union says corporation’s unwillingness to solve problems in the plant stands in the way of “jobs of the future.”
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“If the government can step in and tell railroad workers they can’t strike, they can also step in and tell the corporations that they have to go green.” —UE Local 1177 Recording Secretary Cedric Whelchel
A new California directive would require a transition to emissions-free locomotives—and create scores of good union jobs. While the rail industry is fighting it tooth and nail, a coalition of labor and environmental groups is holding them to account.
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HAPPENING NOW: 1000+ MIT grad workers announce they're forming a union supported by UE! Congrats to
@MITGradUnion
#MITGSU
This is history. Many several hundred (perhaps one thousand or so) MIT Graduate Student-Workers have gathered to launch the
@MITGradUnion
. Proud to be here to witness this labor organizing. Standing in solidarity with
@VoteJivan
,
@QZondervan
, and other
@Boston_DSA
members.
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Tomorrow is the last day to sign the statement to help preserve the mural. We need 200 more signatures.
50 years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. (1/5)
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Yesterday
@BernieSanders
posted a
#tbt
photo on Instagram of him standing on a picket line with members of UE Local 258 in Windsor, VT in 1983. Sanders, then Mayor of Burlington, traveled to the other side of the state to support the locked-out machine tool workers. 1/5
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Grad workers at Northwestern University, members of UE Local 1122, have ratified their 1st UE contract! The contract includes a $45,000 minimum stipend by September — a 22% raise. Dental & vision premiums will be covered and there are now limits on mandatory working hours. (1/3)
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UE members reaffirmed the union's longstanding commitment to
#MedicareForAll
this morning, unanimously endorsing a resolution declaring that "The U.S. employer-based private health insurance system is a disaster" and demanding that Congress pass HR 1384. 1/3
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92% of grad workers at UChicago have voted YES for their union!! ⚡️ this is a huge victory after years of fighting for better working conditions!
@uchicagogsu
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The current move by President Biden and Congress to impose a contract on our nation’s 115,000 railroad workers is an unconscionable attack on rail workers, the labor movement, and the entire U.S. working class.
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UE Press Release: UE Endorses
#GreenNewDeal
“The Green New Deal offers our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of good union jobs,” said UE General President Peter Knowlton.
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“This is what a union looks like” UE members and allies picket the Wabtec shareholders meeting in downtown Pittsburgh
#1u
#ueunion
#UnionStrong
#NoTwoTier
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UE mourns the loss of Brother Saladin Muhammad, who served on UE staff and played a key role in founding and building UE Local 150. He passed away on Monday after a long battle with illness. 1/4
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Grad workers at both UNM & NMSU have ratified 1st contracts. w/ overall raises of 7.12% & 6.8%, respectively, going into effect in the next semester, these workers have started on a strong path towards making their universities a better place for all ✊
@unmgradworkers
@NMSUfight
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UE and
@ufcw3000
have initiated a labor call for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. We urge all union members to join us here: 1/12
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“Why not listen to the workers who know what’s needed to make the nation’s railroads safer? They have a simple solution: nationalize the rail industry so that the people, not the corporations, are in charge.”
@NicholsUprising
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Congresswoman
@SummerForPA
was 🔥🔥🔥 at last week's solidarity rally for UE Locals 506 and 618 at
@WabtecCorp
headquarters.
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UE was founded 87 years ago today, by a group of mostly young workers in the electrical and radio manufacturing industries.
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Student workers at Kenyon College are holding the first known undergraduate student labor strike in the United States today, to demand recognition of their union,
@KenyonSWOC
/ UE
#RecognizeKSWOC
#KenyonOnStrike
1/6
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When white Democratic billionaires spend millions of dollars trying to defeat pro-worker candidates of color like
@SummerForPA
it’s not just a bad look ... it’s bad electoral politics.
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HUGE WIN
@NorthwesternGW
⚡️💜 93.5% of Northwestern graduate workers have voted YES to unionizing with UE! 💪🎊
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Stand with our brothers and sisters in
@APWUnational
by signing their petition demanding that President Biden act now to save the Post Office. All working people have a stake in maintaining the USPS as a public and universal service.
#1u
#SaveThePostOffice
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The
#1
UE NEWS story of 2021 is from just 2 weeks ago, when a “card check” confirmed that a majority of the 1,547 graduate workers at the University of New Mexico have joined
@unmgradworkers
— the largest UE organizing victory in 25 years. 1/14
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After packing the Durham City Council meeting last night, Durham Solid Waste workers stood down this morning and did not not load their work trucks in protest of low wages! ✊
@UE150Union
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Grad workers at Cornell University voted with a 96% majority to form a union with UE. 1,873 grad workers voted yes, and 80 voted no; 60% of eligible voters voted.
Read more about the campaign here: (1/4)
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The
#MedicareForAll
Act of 2021 was introduced into Congress today. Moving this important piece of legislation will require constant pressure from working people. Call your member of Congress on the Medicare for All hotline: 202-953-4101.
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“The entire union world must be ready to throw its support behind the workers in Erie” as UE Local 506 fights for the
#RightToStrike
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“In its first 24 hours, the new union—affiliated with the United Electrical Workers (UE)—gathered more than 1,700 authorization cards representing nearly half the entire bargaining unit.”
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The workers of Local 506 & 618 continue marching on the picket line! 🔥
Donations to their strike fund are needed.
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1800+ people have signed our community statement supporting the preservation of the “Solidarity” mural on the interior walls of the UE Hall in Chicago.
If you have not yet signed the statement, please sign here:
50 years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. (1/5)
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GOLD-UE, the grad workers of Dartmouth, have won their union!! ⚡️🎉
@GOLDartmouth
This victory is a huge testament to the power of organized workers ✊ (1/4)
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The workers have made themselves clear ✊
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“Although they are not officially called taxes, insurance premiums paid by employers are just like taxes – but taxes paid to private insurers instead of paid to the government. Like payroll taxes, they reduce your wage.”
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In his new book Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism, labor historian Shelton Stromquist describes how, following a “global strike wave” in the late 19th c., workers turned to municipal politics in an effort to improve their lives (1/3)
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🔥🪧 Show up to the solidarity rally!! The 1400 members of UE Locals 506 and 618 who build locomotives for Wabtec in Erie, PA are striking for green jobs. The two locals are working hard to bring new work into the plant through the Green Locomotive Project.
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“As Cesar Chavez taught us, ‘Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.’ Workers who learned just how essential we are during the pandemic have not forgotten that lesson.”
@FlyingWithSara
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“We are proud of the resolve of the membership over 70 days on the picket line. As a result of the action taken by our members, we made both economic and non-economic gains.”
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UE President Carl Rosen was interviewed this week about the Chicago "Solidarity" mural on the Labor Heritage Power Hour podcast. The mural currently resides in the Chicago UE Hall but the once working-class neighborhood has been gentrified & the mural needs to be preserved. (1/4)
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“We need a lawyer.”
How many times have you heard a member say that when your local is dealing with the latest case of bad behavior by the employer?
This month's UE Steward looks at what the role of lawyers should be in a rank & file union (1/3)
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❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 solidarity forever! Thank you for supporting the workers.
Locals 506 & 618 just hit one month on the picket line. The workers are striking for green jobs and a fair contract. You can donate to their strike fund here:
We are immensely proud to have received help from
@DSA_Labor
in order for
@eriedsa
to be able give $3,000 to the striking workers of
@ueunion
506 & 618!
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The right to strike is a fundamental human right, and one of the only effective tools working people have to win justice from the corporations who increasingly seek to control not only our economy and our government, but every aspect of our lives.
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.
@labornotes
is hosting a Zoom call on Nov. 15 to hear reports from workers who are organizing to stop an escalating genocide in Palestine. Many are also fighting against the repression of workers who are speaking up for a ceasefire & against Israel’s occupation of Palestine 🇵🇸
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15 years ago today, the members of UE Local 1110 at the Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago were facing their last day of work after the company decided to close — laying everyone off without negotiating closure terms, violating the contract. (🧵 1/6)
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“Declaring that both the Republican & Democratic Parties have become the champions of big business betraying the needs of the American people, 3,240 delegates founded this weekend a new American political party.” This may sound like a fantasy, but 75 years ago today... (🧵, 1/14)
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Congratulations to
@CTULocal1
on their tentative agreement, a great victory for the whole working class. And shame on the mayor for holding up an end to the
#CTUSEIUstrike
We have reached a landmark tentative agreement with CPS, but by not restoring days of instruction, the mayor is making it clear that she is more concerned about politics than the well-being of students.
#CTUSEIUstrike
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We are less than 200 signatures from our goal. Sign the statement by Monday to help preserve the mural!
50 years ago, a team of artists led by John Pitman Weber and Jose Guerrero created the “Solidarity” mural in the lobby of the UE Hall in Chicago, at that time the center of a vibrant working-class neighborhood. (1/5)
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“Dozens of union locals, regional and state organizations and coalitions have endorsed a call for labor support of a cease-fire, which was issued in October by UE, a legendary militant union with a long history of supporting Palestinian rights,”
@NicholsUprising
reports.
As the UAW advocates for a cease-fire in Gaza, it carries forward the labor legacy of Eugene Victor Debs and Walter Reuther, writes
@NicholsUprising
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We're excited to welcome the workers at
@RAYGUNshirts
to UE! RAYGUN workers have formed the newest (and highest-numbered) UE local, Local 8515, officially chartered by UE's General Executive Board last week
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We need only 100 more signatures!! Please sign today to help preserve the mural!
We are less than 200 signatures from our goal. Sign the statement by Monday to help preserve the mural!
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Between January & April, over 14,000 grad workers on 5 campuses across the country voted to join UE—all by margins of over 80%. The latest issue of the UE NEWS features accounts of all 5 campaigns, written by some of the grad workers who led them (🧵 1/6)
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Thanks to
@SummerForPA
and the 100s of other people who came out to Wabtec corporate HQ in Pittsburgh today support the members of UE Locals 506 and 618 who are on strike for good green jobs. 1/10
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In September, as the UAW launched their historic strike against all of the Big Three automakers, UE’s General Executive Board declared, “The auto workers’ strike is all of our fight, and we encourage all UE members and allies to support the strike in whatever way they can.” (1/4)
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The 700 members of UE Local 1004 who work for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, CA, are on a one-day unfair labor practice strike today. 1/7
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Congratulations to workers at Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, who voted overwhelmingly to join UE in mail balloting that concluded last week.
#1u
#UnionStrong
#ueunion
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.
@LaborAgainstWar
, of which UE is a founding member, released a statement today condemning President Trump’s warmongering in the Middle East and calling for “immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq and no catastrophic war with Iran.”
#USoutofIraq
#NoWarWithIran
1/4
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A bus full of determined strikers from UE Locals 506 and 618 is on its way to Wilmerding to visit Wabtec HQ
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The members of UE Local 1103-GSU, graduate workers at UChicago, ratified their first UE contract this week! ⚡️
@uchicagogsu
(1/6)
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The 1,600 grad workers in
@unmgradworkers
secured a 6% raise at the University of New Mexico in their recent compensation reopener negotiations with the university’s administration.
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“Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions since 1988… This is why the UE strike matters…the workers who are striking for green jobs are showing us…that workers can —& must— lead the way to a better future.”
#GreenLocomotives
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Today marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most violent attacks on a UE picket line in history. (🧵, 1/8)
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Please sign on to this statement by January 31 to demonstrate to potential funders that there is widespread support for preserving this vital piece of history! (2/5)
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“Today, with Democrats in control of the Senate, we will use reconciliation to benefit the working class, not the billionaire class.”
@SenSanders
introduced his FY 2022 budget resolution yesterday:
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“We are the Durham City Workers. This city does not work unless we do. This city works because we do!!”
Watch the full length version of this powerful video here:
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🤔🤔🤔
Joe Biden tells UFCW members they get to keep their private insurance under his healthcare plan, tries to demonize
#MedicareForAll
NOBODY CLAPS. ABSOLUTE SILENCE.
#UFCWForum
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UE statement on the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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UE General President Carl Rosen visits
@MITGradUnion
drive to celebrate their progress toward building a strong, democratic majority union
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Today, on the fifth day of the
#HungerStrikeForCeasefire
, UE members from
@TRUhopkins
joined
@UAWregion9
,
@APWUnational
,
@CLUWNational
,
@APALAnational
, Baltimore Teachers Union, & more to call for an immediate & permanent ceasefire.
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Hundreds of Local 610 members and supporters including
@SummerForPA
and
@gainey_ed
rallied in Wilmerding this morning to demand that Wabtec invest in its historic plant and sign a fair contract with its workers.
#1u
#ueunion
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Over 100 UE members from across the country rocked the 2024 Labor Notes Conference in Chicago last weekend, growing the “trouble-making” wing of the labor movement. (1/3)
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And we thank
@SenSanders
who offered immediate assistance, wrote a letter to the company, & made our struggle a national issue by highlighting it in his CNN Town Hall, on social media, and inviting UE 506 President Scott Slawson to speak at his campaign kick-off rally. 7/9
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“Nothing in the NLRA, however, requires a union to *agree* to a no-strike clause. Moreover, because a no-strike clause is a mandatory subject of bargaining, the union may strike to keep it out of the contract.” Tips for first contracts in
@labornotes
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Why were UE members ready to take action for a ceasefire? We educate our membership on the issues, discuss and debate them in a democratic fashion, and our members make union policy at conventions held every two years.
@labornotes
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UE members rallying for
#MedicareForAll
and against Kennametal’s demand for healthcare givebacks from UE Local 274 members in Greenfield MA
#ue76th
#ueunion
#1u
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