UE Political Action Updates

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Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Are a Further Escalation — U.S. Must End Military Aid Now

September 24, 2024

Israel’s recent strikes on Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people including women, children, and paramedics, are exactly the type of regional escalation of hostilities that we predicted would happen without a ceasefire in Gaza. Right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government has faced massive protests including a general strike, is attempting to stay in power by expanding the war and killing additional innocent people.

The Path Forward for Working People in the 2024 Elections and Beyond

September 13, 2024

Meeting in Pittsburgh this week, UE’s General Executive Board discussed the 2024 elections and adopted a statement declaring, “Working people desperately need an independent political organization, based on a political program that can unite us, which can fight for that platform in the electoral arena — in short, a labor party.”

Who is J.D. Vance?

August 2, 2024

In April, former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, chose the Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance has traded on his 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy and his working-class background to position himself as a “working man” who hates “elites” — and to win votes from working people who have been the victims of decades of corporate globalization. However, his actual life tells a different story.

New Report: Medicare Advantage Takes Advantage of Seniors

July 5, 2024

The privately-administered Medicare Advantage program is causing significant harm to America’s patients, providers, and health care system, according to a new report from Physicians for a National Health Program. Medicare Advantage harms patients’ health by limiting their access to treatments, physicians, and hospitals, while creating what the report calls “a massive profit machine” for insurers.

The Stakes of the 2024 Election

June 7, 2024

This year’s presidential election is the starkest demonstration yet of how the two corporate parties which dominate American politics prevent working people from using our democracy to improve our conditions.

The only way out of this two-party trap is a strong and politically independent labor movement, with millions more working people organized into unions and other worker organizations independent of the existing political parties. Only then will we be able to force politicians to address the needs of the working class and then hold them accountable once they are in office, not only through elections but through other forms of political action such as marches, strikes, occupations and mass civil disobedience.

Local 150 Holds Political Action Day at State Legislature

May 17, 2024

UE Local 150 members from the Department of Health and Human Services and the University of North Carolina held a political action day at the state legislature on Thursday, May 16 to urge their representatives to take action to improve working conditions for public-sector workers around the state. Members gave speeches and chanted on the front lawn outside the capitol to call attention to their unlivable wages and working conditions.

UE Ally Summer Lee Defeats Billionaire-Backed Primary Challenge

April 24, 2024

“Our Congresswoman Summer Lee fights tirelessly for … the working class people and their families in our district, in our state and in our country,” said Local 610 President Antwon Gibson. “UE Local 610 is proud to once again endorse the People’s Champion, Summer Lee, for Congress.” The UE Eastern Region also endorsed Lee’s re-election campaign.

Retired Local 1107 Officer Appears in Ad Opposing Social Security Cuts

April 3, 2024

A new ad urging Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) to stop supporting efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare features retired UE Local 1107 officer Joni Anderson.

“I spent almost 30 years on my feet working hard at the factory,” Anderson says in the video. “I paid into Social Security with every paycheck.”

“Derrick Van Orden’s plan would slash Medicare and Social Security,” she continues in a voice-over, “but Van Orden voted for huge tax breaks for corporations.”

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