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A long time coming… and this time, they won.
The nurses of Chicago Assembly Plant are officially part of UAW Local 551. After trying to organize before and falling short, they came back stronger with the support of their union behind them.
Enrique Casiano is a local registered nurse, union leader, and organizer. As a Chairperson for UAW 95, Enrique helped to lead the 2025 Mercy Health East Clinic Strike. Enrique also recently ran for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District with the aim of improving the power of labor by strengthening unions and guaranteeing healthcare as a right.
In a new video, Woodward MPC workers speak out as part of their fight for a fair contract after months of stalling from the employer.
The video is available for the media and public to VIEW HERE.
“Our work keeps planes in the air, maintains our nation’s defenses, and keeps Woodward making billions,” the workers share. “So, where’s our cut?”
Last year, the workers voted to affiliate with the UAW and are in the midst of contract negotiations with Woodward, an aerospace and defense company. The company is currently refusing to negotiate, in violation of US labor law.
“In 2025, CEO Chip Blankenship made $11.3 million dollars,” the workers point out, “While we’re struggling to buy groceries.”
Woodward has made over $1.8 billion in profits since 2020 and has spent over $1.4 billion of that on Wall Street payouts in the form of stock buybacks and dividends.
“We are Woodward MPC-UAW. We demand Woodward get back to bargaining table. We demand a fair and clear level progression. We demand industry-leading wages,” state the workers. “We demand respect at Woodward MPC.”
The UAW Family Scholarship covers the cost for UAW members and their families to attend a one-week conference at Black Lake. But this isn’t just any conference, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a program that was designed and centered around our members and their families.
Through educational and recreational activities, the Family Scholarship Program allows adults and children to learn and think about how our union empowers us to change our workplaces and communities for ourselves and future generations.
These lessons are learned through daily adult and children’s programs and family activities. Check out these photos of the Family Scholarship Program from the past few years!
All active or laid-off UAW members in good standing can apply for the Family Scholarship Program if they have never previously attended. This Program is only available one time per member. Past participants are not eligible to reapply.
Your spouse/domestic partner (must reside at the same address) and children/grandchildren 4-18 years old may attend with you. You may be required to provide a birth certificate or proof of legal guardianship for each attending child.
Children under four years old cannot attend. Other relatives, non-relatives, and retirees are not eligible to participate.
Since 1970, thousands of UAW members and their families have participated in the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center Scholarship Program — changing their lives and those of their loved ones forever!
Located in scenic Onaway, Michigan, on Black Lake, the UAW Family Education Center was envisioned by legendary UAW President Walter Reuther to be a place where UAW members and their families could come together to learn and have fun.
Once approved for the UAW Family Scholarship, the UAW pays all lodging, food, and program costs for the one-week session! Some travel expenses are also reimbursed!
July 12-17, 2026
The application deadline is Monday, June 1, 2026. Apply for a scholarship and learn more about the Family Scholarship Program by following the link below!
UAW members took the union’s working-class agenda to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, lobbying political leaders to support legislation advancing the union’s four core issues.
Delegates from each of the UAW’s nine regions met with their respective elected representatives to share their personal stories and to push for pro-worker policies, including affordable healthcare, protecting and expanding worker rights to freely organize, shorter work weeks and improved paid leave, and real retirement security for every American.
On Tuesday evening, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock welcomed attendees to the Congressional & Movement Allies Reception, reminding UAW members that it’s on all of us to fight for a better tomorrow.
“If there’s one thing that’s been made absolutely clear over the last forty years, it’s that billionaires and corporations will never use their influence and power over our government to make life better for everyday Americans,” Mock told attendees. “Only WE can do that. It is our time to lead and to stand up to the oppressive forces we are seeing today… to give people inspiration, hope, and the belief that, if we stand together and fight, we can ensure our country works for working people.”
The final day of the 2026 National CAP Conference will convene at 9 am tomorrow and will feature U.S. Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock (GA), a Michigan Senate Forum at 10 am, followed by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (VT). All three events will be livestreamed on UAW YouTube, X, and Facebook.
Recap of Day One of the National CAP Conference
Recap of Day Two of the National CAP Conference
For more information on this year’s event, visit UAW.org/CAP2026.
The UAW has voted to endorse Dan Osborn, an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate from Nebraska.
“Dan Osborn is one of us. A union member who came up through the ranks to fight for economic and social justice for the working class,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “We don’t need another lawyer or corporate hack who only cares about the richest Americans in the U.S. Senate, we need independent blue-collar fighters like Dan. Wealth inequality is out of control in our country. The rich continue to take all the profits while the affordability crisis leaves working class people scraping to get by paycheck to paycheck. If we’re going to change this system, we need to elect working-class people to the halls of Congress who understand this. We’re proud to stand with Dan Osborn and ready to elect him to take on corporate greed and our rigged political system.”
“UAW Region 4 is on the front lines of the class war on blue collar America, and Dan Osborn is right there with us,” said UAW Region 4 Director Brandon Campbell, whose region covers the state of Nebraska. “Dan is an independent, who is loyal only to the working class. From his leadership in the Kellogg strike to taking on Tyson as they try to devastate the Midwest with another massive plant closure to pad Wall Street’s bottom line, Dan has proven he’s got the guts and the experience to take corporate America head on, and working Nebraskans are ready to elect him to the U.S. Senate.”
“The United Auto Workers helped build this country and ushered in our nation’s greatest eras of prosperity for working people,” said Dan Osborn. “With their leadership and working class representation in the Senate, we can return to that prosperity and level the playing field for workers once again. I am honored and humbled by their endorsement, and I will always be a fighter for them and all working people in the U.S. Senate.”
The UAW will convene for its biannual Community Action Program Conference in Washington DC, February 8-11, where Osborn will address hundreds of UAW members. For more information, visit UAW.org/cap2026.
UAW Region 4, Local 2320 Immigrant Justice Workers United Unit gathered in office to deliver a letter in solidarity to the Executive Director, requesting that our Coordinators, Legal Fellows, and additional staff be recognized as members of UAW National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW).
A supermajority of the workers has signed Union cards and want to fight for better wages and working conditions, standing in solidarity with their Union siblings.
Give your solidarity and support to our newest members seeking voluntary recognition to be included in the existing Immigrant Justice Workers United bargaining unit.
Justice for those who seek justice for others!
In a new video, a delegation of UAW agricultural implement workers from John Deere and Case New Holland speak out in Washington, DC against plant closures, layoffs, and the attack on workers throughout this sector.
The new video is available here.
In the latest attack on southeast Iowa’s working class, multibillion-dollar transnational corporation Case New Holland (CNH) is threatening to devastate the blue-collar community of Burlington, Iowa, by closing a nearly century-old plant. CNH has made $6.6 billion in profits in the last three years alone and has spent over $3.1 billion of that on shareholder distributions and CEO pay.
In response, UAW members and leaders are both organizing at the grassroots and taking their fight to the halls of Congress, demanding action from elected representatives of both parties, across the Midwest, and across the country.
“I understand that you have to be a profitable company, but does profitable mean you have to take food off of my table too?” said Marcques Derby, plant chairman at UAW Local 807, CNH in Burlington, Iowa. “Reach across the aisle to condemn these actions and activities from CNH. It’s a multinational and multibillion dollar company. Make your stance be known. It’s just a commitment that I’m asking for. Actually, I’m not even asking, I’m demanding it.”
UAW Region 4 Local 95 Unit 12 Mercy Clinic East Members thanks the community for their support and solidarity during their strike.
WASHINGTON—This week, UAW members from the Agricultural Implements sector took to Capitol Hill to raise the alarm on the devastating impact of bad trade deals, and fight layoffs and plant closures across the agricultural implements and construction equipment sector.
Since 2023, John Deere has laid off hundreds of workers and offshored multiple products from Iowa to Mexico. Caterpillar (CAT) operates three major manufacturing facilities in Mexico, with rampant labor abuses, driving a race to the bottom. And this month, CNH announced plans to close its Burlington, Iowa plant after nearly a century of operations.
“The American taxpayer and the American worker have invested millions of dollars and decades of blood, sweat, and tears to make these companies what they are today,” said UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson, Director of the Agricultural Implements Department of the UAW. “To take that investment and kill American jobs to pay off Wall Street is a slap in the face to American workers, consumers, and taxpayers. DC needs to step up and stop corporate greed.”
“Executives at these companies think that the devastation of plant closures, lost jobs, broken homes, and the destruction of blue-collar communities are not their problem,” said UAW Region 4 Director Brandon Campbell, “But the UAW is going to make these decisions a major problem for these corporations and their Wall Street buddies. We’re in Washington, D.C. this week to make their corporate greed a problem for politicians across the Midwest—regardless of if they are a Democrat or Republican.”
UAW members in D.C. met with the offices of Representatives Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1), and Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2). They also met with the offices of Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Roger Marshall (R-KS). In addition to the members of Congress, workers also met with staff from the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
In their meetings, UAW members laid out three core demands for how to better navigate the offshoring of midwestern jobs by corporate greed:
“American manufacturers, built on American values, are making decisions every day to close and move plants without looking at the people and families that they are impacting,” said Marcques Derby, UAW Local 807 Chairperson at CNH in Burlington, Iowa. “Politicians have a real say. Most of them take campaign contributions from companies that are offshoring good jobs held by their constituents. It’s our elected officials that need to utilize their voice—we elected them for that, didn’t we?”
In addition to this week’s lobbying efforts, hundreds of UAW members from across the U.S. recently submitted stories about the devastation of so-called “free trade” and the urgent need for a worker-centered transformation of our trade deals. The UAW International also submitted an extensive comment calling for transformative changes to North American trade policy that put the international working class first, ahead of corporate interests, which can be viewed here. The UAW will be making trade and the fight against mass layoffs and plant closures a major focus of our 2026 electoral efforts heading into the midterm elections to win for UAW members and the whole working class.
