UE Political Action Updates

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Bob South's Grassroots Campaign Overcomes GOP Surge to Retain Vermont House Seat

January 6, 2011
St. Johnsbury, VT

One candidate who survived the nationwide Republican tide in November was Bob South, a UE member at Fairbanks Scales and president of Local 234. South first ran for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives in 2006, falling short of victory, but won the election in 2008. This year the Republican Party spent heavily in its effort to oust this working-class Democrat, but South was reelected.

“I think that face-to-face contact with my constituents was really what helped me pull out a victory,” says South. “These are the same basic organizing tactics we use in UE.”

UE Statement on Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

December 10, 2010

December 10, 2010

At our national convention in 2009 our union declared: “The ‘neoliberal’ corporate agenda affects us all. Downsizing and outsourcing in the private sector, privatization, deregulation, and budget cuts in the public sector, along with ‘free trade’ agreements, negatively impact working people globally.”  We declared: “The fate of our planet demands that we place the well being of the majority of the world’s people ahead of profits for the few.”

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