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Find Out About ...
The USA's
Rank-and-File Union
What We Stand For ...
UE operates on two basic principles: rank-and-file control and aggressive struggle.
Our slogan is "The Members Run This Union," and in the union's more than 140 autonomous locals
around the country, that's exactly what happens.
UE carefully avoids the top-down, top-heavy, bureaucratic style of many unions by
promoting membership control. The salary of the union's three top elected officers is limited by the UE Constitution to the top
wage paid in the industry (currently set at less than $51,000.) It's hard to think (or act) like a big shot on a worker's wage.
More important, this policy keeps UE leaders in touch with the lives of our members — we believe it's too easy for labor
leaders to develop "boss-like" points of view if they've become comfortable with "boss-size" salaries.
Since membership control is critically important to UE, we hold annual national
conventions. Elected local union representatives meet each year to set UE policy by debating and
approving resolutions submitted by local unions from around the country. To hold conventions less frequently would only reduce
the voice of the membership in running the union.
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