Worker centers in general serve as a clearinghouse for workers’ needs when forming a union is all but impossible. Even in anti-union terrains, the centers have found ways to change public and corporate policies.
More important, the agreement calls for a vote of all 400,000 members to decide whether they want direct election of top leaders.
The settlement ends five-year probe into misuse of union monies at the UAW. An independent monitor will oversee the union for up to six years.
The diversity of manufacturing workers, even in rural communities, makes an organizing committee meeting a rare and important place: a space where people can sit down face-to-face and confront their differences.
While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
In the wake of former UAW President Gary Jones pleading guilty last week to stealing more than $1 million, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider is demanding 'serious action' on reform inside the United Auto Workers 'within a couple of months.'
Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus
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