a fundamental right
The UE Freedom
To Organize
Campaign
FIGHT FOR AN ECONOMIC
RECOVERY FOR WORKERS
... NOT BANKERS.
Join Us! The UE Freedom to Organize Campaign is a nationwide, year-long mobilization to fight for union rights, to provide a voice on the job for more workers and to demand an economic recovery that benefits workers, not bankers. Check it out: The UE Freedom to Organize Campaign.
Political Action Updates
Senate Logjam Points Out Need for Rank-and-File Pressure
Issues Briefings
The Right to Organize,
Healthcare and Pensions
Why do we need the Employee Free Choice Act? Because bosses have made a mockery of the Labor Board election process and they know it.
Think about it for a moment: exactly when was the last time you heard a boss extolling the virtues of democracy at work?
The Employee Free Choice Act
NEW - Bosses have nearly destroyed our legal right to organize and protect our standard of living. But, with working people both united and vocal, we have the chance to restore that right ...
The Healthcare Crisis
There's abundant evidence that our health care system is disintegrating. We need single-payer national healthcare ... and we need it now! Health care should be a right, not a privilege ...
Retirement Crisis
After a lifetime of work, the prospect of an old age spent working, living in poverty, or both, are frightening thoughts. Yet, that's what's facing millions of workers unless we do something about it now!
Congressional Scorecard
HOW'D THEY VOTE?
UE's 2008
Congressional Scorecard
Our annual review of how Congress voted on issues that impact our lives as working people.
It was anything but glorious and it certainly wasn't productive. The Republican minority, rallied by outgoing President Bush, made sure nothing of any real value to working people came out of Congress in 2008.
UE Scorecard Info
Go right to the SCORECARD
or view our Scorecard issues (by year):
As always, though, we did manage to find key votes that speak volumes about who your members of Congress have been working to represent.
You can either go right to our our scorecard ... or read our overview of the second session of the 110th Congress, including the issues we used to build our scorecard. Issues and overviews from previous years can be found at right.
The Right to Organize
International Worker Justice Campaign
At simultaneous press conferences in three states, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has been asked to investigate why some U.S. workers are denied a fundamental human right: the right to organize and bargain collectively.
At the press conferences, held Monday, December 10 — International Human Rights Day — in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, UE local leaders, members and supporters announced the filing of our formal request for an IACHR hearing into why, for some public employees in the United States, union bargaining is outlawed.
Third UE Initiative in the Fight for Collective Bargaining
The request to the OAS is the third international legal initiative undertaken by UE in the fight to win collective bargaining rights for all public employees. Cases have also been brought before the ILO, the human rights agency of the United Nations and, through the efforts of Mexico's FAT, under the side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These stories are available in UE News Update:
ILO
• UN Labor Panel Finds U.S. in Violation, Calls for Repeal of NC Bargaining Ban (4/07)
NAFTA
• Unions Charge North Carolina Violating NAFTA Labor Rules (10/06)
• Full Complaint (pdf format)
• Mexico Looks for Answers on US Labor Rights Violations (11/07)