New York City, NY – American unions will join the Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee in Manhattan tomorrow to protest commemoration of the judge who investigated, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced popular former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula. Lula is appealing the conviction and 12-year jail sentence. Despite his imprisonment, he is seeking the presidency as a leader of the Workers Party, and he is the front runner. During President Lula’s two terms, Brazil’s economy soared, lifting 40 million out of poverty, as he focused on the needs of the poor and working people. “The situation in ...
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On Tuesday, January 26, UAW Members from Region 2B gathered for breakfast in Washington, D.C., in the the aftermath of Winter Storm Jonas. Dozens of members from Ohio and Indiana had been fortunate enough to make it into the capital before the worst of the storm hit and the conference was officially canceled. With many elected officials out of town and unable to get back due to travel conditions, it wasn’t certain that members would have anyone to meet with. However, Senator Joe Donnelly (D- Ind.) was able to travel to Washington from Indianapolis thanks, he said, to his UAW-made ...
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Kensington, MD – Today the Maryland State United Auto Workers (UAW) Community Action Program announced they are endorsing Chris Van Hollen for U.S. Senate. The group represents over 15,000 active and retired members and their families in Maryland. In announcing their endorsement of Van Hollen for U.S. Senate, Ray Curry, director of UAW Region 8 said, “Our union and its members in Maryland intend to do all within our power to support and advance Chris Van Hollen’s candidacy because of his commitment to Maryland’s working families. “Maryland UAW members are tireless champions for families in our state – on everything ...
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Read the call letter to the 2016 Financial Officers’ Conference Register now for the 2016 Financial Officers’ Conference Greetings: The UAW Financial Officers’ Conference will be held Sunday, March 13 through Friday, March 18, 2016, at the Doubletree at the Entrance to Universal – in Orlando, Florida. This conference is for local union presidents, financial secretaries/treasurers, trustees and recording secretaries. Local union bookkeepers may also attend. Local unions should plan on attending one of two sessions being offered: Session 1 for LM 2 filers on March 14th – 17th Session 2 for LM 3 & 4 filers on March 16th ...
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DETROIT — The UAW commends the Senate for reaching a bipartisan agreement and passing legislation to extend Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits. As our economy continues to recover, the EUC program provides critical support to job seekers and their families. It is now Speaker Boehner’s turn to take action immediately in the House of Representatives. Since December 28, more than 2.2 million Americans have been completely cut off from the EUC program, and another 72,000 continue to lose benefits each week. These are Americans who have worked and are actively looking to return to work. The loss of EUC benefits ...
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Working People in the South Will Continue to Unite CHATTANOOGA, TN – “I am so proud of the workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant for sticking together and trying to make their voices heard,” Henry said. “They are an inspiration to a growing movement of working people across the nation who are uniting for good economy-boosting jobs.” “The courage that the Volkswagen workers showed over the past three days in the face of an aggressive anti-worker campaign by special interests and anti-worker politicians is an inspiration to all workers. “This setback won’t stop working people from continuing to unite for ...
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600 volunteers from UAW-Ford and local high schools to assemble food boxes containing uncooked items for a complete holiday meal as food giveaway part of national program providing 17,000 meals across the country DETROIT – The UAW-Ford National Program Center (NPC) will again help local families in need this holiday season. The NPC will be giving away boxes of food containing all of the components for a complete holiday meal including a turkey, vegetables, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, stuffing, cake mix and icing. The meal boxes will be distributed locally on Friday, Dec. 20 and Saturday, Dec. 21 at ...
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DETROIT – The UAW will join the Alliance for Retired Americans during the weeks of July 29 and August 12 in celebrating Medicaid’s 48th anniversary (July 30) and Social Security’s 78th anniversary (Aug. 14) by fighting to defend and strengthen these programs and the protections they provide to all Americans. They have dramatically expanded access to health care and enabled millions of seniors to retire with dignity and out of poverty. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are again under attack by right-wing extremists trying to cut benefits and privatize these programs. This fall they will once again try to pressure ...
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