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2026 International Officer Election Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
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Working People Over PACs: UAW Ground Game Helps Power Primary Victories Statewide
After months of organizing on shop floors and in communities across Michigan, UAW members helped deliver a rebuke to billionaire-funded politics on Tuesday, powering victories for working-class champions across the state. Leading the ticket, UAW-endorsed Abdul El-Sayed defeated an obscene flood of outside spending to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate through a grassroots […] -
Joint Statement from President Shawn Fain and Vice President Rich Boyer: Fatality of UAW Stellantis Member at Center Line National Parts Depot
This morning, at Stellantis’ Mopar Division, Center Line National Parts facility in Center Line, MI, our UAW family lost longtime member James Brasher. Brasher was a thirty-plus-year UAW member and laborer working on a renovation project at the PDC when the incident occurred. A member of our union went to work today expecting to complete […] -
Statement on John Deere Contract Extension Offer by UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson, Director of the Agricultural Implement Department
John Deere cannot ask workers to surrender the benefit of a signed agreement while treating the request as anything less than bargaining. John Deere is asking to change a collective bargaining agreement that both sides already negotiated and signed. When a company comes back to rewrite the deal, it is asking for something. That is […]
AUTOWORKERS ACROSS THE U.S. ARE JOINING THE UAW. ARE YOU READY TO STAND UP AND WIN YOUR FAIR SHARE?
Volkswagen workers just made history and voted UAW YES! It’s time for autoworkers to win a better life at Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Mazda, Rivian, Lucid, Volvo and beyond.
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2026 International Officer Election Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
In this issue: International Officer Election Candidates and slates. Get informed and get ready to cast your vote!
Read More 2026 International Officer Election Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!UAW's Fellowship Program: An Opportunity to Become a Local Union Discussion Leader (LUDL)
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Building Skills, Building Power at Local 2325
NEW YORK, NY – A newly formed local union education committee hit the ground running at Local 2325, the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys...
New Dates Announced for 2026 UAW Health & Safety Conference
This conference was previously scheduled for May 2026, but due to severe flooding in Northern Michigan, it was postponed. The new dates are October 11...
Read More New Dates Announced for 2026 UAW Health & Safety ConferenceSummer 2026 Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
The new Summer 2026 issue of Solidarity Magazine is now available. You can download it here, and share it with fellow UAW members.In this issue:...
Application Deadline for the 2026 Family Scholarship Program is Fast Approaching
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A New Detroit Art Residency to Elevate Labor Artists
UNION HALL ARTS RESIDENCYDETROIT, MI - The UAW Education Department is proud to support the UNITE HERE Education and Support Fund (501c3) and Talking...