Welcome, UAW Delegates!

From June 15-18, we’re meeting in Detroit for the UAW’s 39th Constitutional Convention. This website is your source for convention news and information.

The Constitutional Convention is a sacred space for democratic deliberation and debate. As delegates, we’ve been elected to consider hundreds of resolutions submitted by the members, and the decisions we make will shape our union for years to come.

As our convention theme says, this is “Our Generation’s Defining Moment.” It comes 90 years after the defining moment of the UAW’s founding generation.

When the UAW’s Constitutional Convention was held in April 1936, the union had just 27,000 dues-paying members and was struggling to organize in Detroit. In fact, that 1936 convention was held in South Bend, IN, not Detroit.

Despite all the challenges those UAW delegates faced, they paved the way for the Sit Down Strike later that year — a strike that transformed the auto industry, jumpstarted the labor movement, and laid the foundation for the American Dream.

This year, we come to Detroit knowing the UAW can do great things again. Since the last Constitutional Convention in 2022, we launched the Stand Up Strike, we organized Volkswagen, and we welcomed tens of thousands of new members into our union.

The work we do at this convention will help determine how our generation keeps moving the union forward.

Let’s get down to work — and get ready to meet our defining moment.