If Democrats Will Not Use Their Congressional Majority Can Working People Borrow It?
The coming year will make or break the Democrats... Full Story...
Drivers at Renzenberger Inc. Vote to Join UE by 3 to 1 Margin
UE gained 160 new members today as drivers who work at Renzenberger Incorporated in Chicago voted by a 3 to 1 margin to join UE. The election victory is also a win for Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), a broad campaign to improve conditions for thousands of transportation and logistics workers in greater Chicago.Full Story...Local 893 Members Picket Against State Layoffs, Say Cuts Threaten Public Safety
Members of UE Local 893 picketed the Anamosa State Penitentiary on January 9, to make the public aware of the impact of pending layoffs of correctional counselors at state correctional institutions in Iowa. The action received extensive coverage on TV news broadcasts in the region. Full Story...Clergy Plan Press Conference to Announce Bissell Boycott
Clergy and other religious leaders in Joliet, Illinois will conduct a press conference on Martin Luther King Day (Monday, Jan. 18) to announce a boycott of Bissell products. Their goal is to secure justice for a group of Bissell warehouse workers who were fired last year when they blew the whistle on violations at the warehouse near Joliet. Full Story...Taxing Our Health Benefits: A Bad Idea We Have Defeated Before
Taxing our health benefits is not a new scheme, but a bad idea from the past that has come back.Full Story...UE Public Sector Members Face the New Year
The New Year is here - what does this mean for public sector workers and taxpayers?Full Story...CDC Workers to Mark 20th Anniversary of Struggle That Won Martin Luther King Holiday
For workers at Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant (formerly Consolidated Diesel Co.), Martin Luther King Day 2010 marks an anniversary of one of their own struggles. It was 20 years ago that employees in the plant circulated a petition calling on company to grant workers a paid holiday for King Day. The petition was presented to management on January 15, 1990. Following another eight months of struggle by the workers, CDC management announced on August 1, 1990 that it would grant the new paid holiday. Full Story...UE's Kingsley Addresses Labor Congress in India
Speaking at the opening session of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) Congress in India this, UE's Director of Organization Bob Kingsley called for more international soldiartity in the fight by working people for decent standards of living. More a thousand trade union members and supporters were in the crowd as the congress opened in Mumbai.Full Story...Local 170 Members Fight State Plan To Charge Workers More for Healthcare
UE Local 170 is once again in the front line of a worker justice issue in West Virginia. In November, the Finance Board of the Public Employee Insurance Agency hatched a plot to increase employee contributions, deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums for state employees. State law requires public hearings on such changes, and the board got an earful of protest from workers and other citizens at six events around the state. Dozens of UE members attended the hearings and composed the largest group in attendance at several of them.Full Story...Another Win Over Privatization For Connecticut UE Members
UE dispatchers in Winsted, CT have turned back an attempt to privatize their jobs.Full Story...
UE News
- Drivers at Renzenberger Inc. Vote to Join UE by 3 to 1 Margin
- Clergy Plan Press Conference to Announce Bissell Boycott
- Local 893 Members Picket Against State Layoffs, Say Cuts Threaten Public Safety
- CDC Workers to Mark 20th Anniversary of Struggle That Won Martin Luther King Holiday
- Local 170 Members Fight State Plan To Charge Workers More for Healthcare
- Locals 625 and 626 Make Wage Gains at ABB, Defeat Pension and Healthcare Concessions
- Another Win Over Privatization For Connecticut UE Members
- UE's Kingsley Addresses Labor Congress in India
- Bissell Warehouse Workers Fighting Back
- Protests Greet the G20 in Pittsburgh
Political Action
- If Democrats Will Not Use Their Congressional Majority Can Working People Borrow It?
- Taxing Our Health Benefits: A Bad Idea We Have Defeated Before
- UE Public Sector Members Face the New Year
- Health Reform Update: Falling Into Place, or Falling Apart?
- Health Reform Update: Kill the Tax on Benefits ASAP
- Part Two - The Struggle for Healthcare Reform: A Page from UE History
- The Struggle for Healthcare Reform: A Page from UE History
- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Comments on the Senate Healthcare Vote
- UE's First Glance at U.S. House of Representatives Healthcare Bill
- UE Convention Calls for Independent Political Action, More Forceful Leadership by Obama and Democrats