UAW Activists Organizing for the Direct Election of Top Union Officials
Channel: Labor Notes
Date: 2020-01-18

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) is a national network of rank-and-file UAW members who are organizing to take on their employers, challenge concessions, and clean up the union. One of the group's first goals is to trigger a specially-called national union convention so they can amend the UAW Constitution and mandate the direct election of top UAW officials through a “one member, one vote” system—just like the Steelworkers, Machinists, and Teamsters have. Just as important, they are using this campaign to build UAWD into a powerful force to transform the UAW, from the bottom-up.

Labor Notes hosted this special webinar for UAW activists on Friday, January 17, 2020.