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The
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Rank-and-File Union
UE Today
UE devotes more of its resources to organizing, on a per capita
basis, than most other national unions. UE's creative approaches to organizing — like the
Workers' Rights Board established originally in Vermont — have become a model for the
entire labor movement. UE's stubborn, relentless, militant rank-and-file approach have won
union rights and union contracts in the face of opposition by lawbreaking corporations.
With its unaffiliated status,
UE is viewed as the "national center for independent
unionism."
UE works to give working
people a political alternative by building the Labor Party.
Consistent with the union's criticism of the AFL-CIO's close
relationship with the Democratic Party and advocacy of labor's
independent political action, UE was a founding members of the Labor
Party in June 1996 and continues to be a prominent supporter.
UE works to give new meaning
to international solidarity through
its "Strategic Organizing Alliance" with Mexico's
independent Authentic Labor Front (FAT). The first-of-its-kind
cross-border approach to organizing developed out of the two
organizations' opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA). UE understands that building international solidarity,
including practical steps to improve living standards and working
conditions across borders, represents the best long-term defense of
members' jobs.
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