UE NEWS Updates

UE's Chris Townsend Takes On Author of Anti-Union Book

September 20, 2012

Book Review by Chris Townsend

On Wednesday, September 12, UE's Political Action Director Chris Townsend debated Mallory Factor, author of a new anti-union book that's being heavily promoted in right-wing media and by big business groups. The debate took place, as Townsend likes to say, "deep behind enemy lines" - at the Washington headquarters of the ultra-conservative Cato Institute.

Click "read more" to read Chris Townsend's review of Factor's book Shaddowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind. We present this for your information; neither Townsend nor UE encourage anyone to buy this malicious book.

Workers Strike Illinois Walmart Warehouse

September 17, 2012

Elwood, IL

On Saturday, September 15, workers at a key Walmart distribution center here joined warehouse workers from Mira Loma, CA on strike to protest illegal retaliation and other labor abuses. On September 17 they planned to visit Walmart's regional offices in Rosemont, IL to deliver tens of thousands of signatures in support of the workers. Read more about the walkout by clicking here.

Local 735 Wins Reinstatement of Unjustly Fired Chief Steward

August 21, 2012

Butler, Indiana

Bernice DeLong speaking at the 2011 UE convention.

Romney and the Republicans: Danger to Workers

August 21, 2012

by Al Hart, UE News Managing Editor

Local 150 Members Picket Charlotte City Government, Demanding Human Rights

August 7, 2012

Charlotte

UE Charlotte members picket city hall, kicking off the Southern Worker Bill of RIghts campaign.

West Virginia State Hospital Employees Picket DHHR Headquarters

August 1, 2012

Charleston

Stamford DPW Workers Protect Pension, Block Privatization Language, Increase Pay

July 11, 2012

Stamford, CT

After nearly two years of negotiations - the final eight months in arbitration hearings - UE members working for the City of Stamford Department of Public Works (DPW) have ratified a new five-year agreement. For the members of Sub-local 82 of UE Local 222, the most important things about this agreement are the concessions that they stopped. Members beat back the city's attempts to eliminate the pension for new hires and replace it with a 457 savings plan - the public sector equivalent of a 401(k).