In the latest episode of From the Archives, UAW Archivist Gavin Strassel – with some help from fellow archivist Mary Wallace – gives us a tour of the cold storage film fault at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.
UAW Archivist, Gavin Strassel, shares some of the most rare and valuable items at the library – letters between Walter Reuther and some of the most significant figures from the 20th century.
In a new video released by the UAW, Local 933 members at Allison Transmission in Indianapolis, Indiana, speak out about why they are ready to strike for as long as it takes to win an equitable contract. The group of 1,500 workers authorized a strike in October and are prepared to walk off the job […]
Today, 33 U.S. Senators are calling on 13 non-union auto companies to refrain from union-busting as over 150,000 autoworkers have launched campaigns to organize with the UAW.
On December 22, 2023, forty-nine workers at EmPower-Solar in Bethpage, NY, voted overwhelmingly to join UAW Local 259. The organizing victory was achieved despite the company hiring lawyers and lobbyists in attempt to thwart workers’ efforts to unionize. Instead of respecting its workers’ decision, EmPower continues to union-bust. On December 29, the company unilaterally laid […]
In what looks to be the first major potential strike of 2024, 1,500 UAW members of Local 933 in Indianapolis are making preparations to walk out at Allison Transmission if the company continues to lowball workers in contract negotiations.
Postdocs who work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York voted to ratify their first-ever collective bargaining agreement by 98%, the SPOC-UAW Bargaining Committee announced on Friday, December 22.
Local 230 member Joel Benefield reflects on the Stand Up Strike at the Big Three.
UAW President Shawn Fain will be speaking at the 21st Detroit MLK Day Rally and March on January 15, 2024, at 12 pm ET.
The UAW Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library, unboxes a toy train set made my UAW members who worked at Lionel.
UAW Statement on Mexico’s SINTTIA Organizing Drive at GM San Luis Potosí
UAW Applauds MI House Dems for “Putting Workers First” Bills, Urges Full Legislature to Pick a Side
UAW Members Strike at Lockheed Martin, as Company Announces $1.7 Billion in First Quarter Profits