2025 UAW Skilled Trades Conference

The skilled trades workers of each local union of the International Union, UAW are invited to participate in the conference through their duly elected delegates. Elected delegates to the National Skilled Trades Conference will serve a three (3) year term. Skilled trades workers are those in the apprenticeable trades and/or skilled classifications as recognized by the International Skilled Trades Department.

Delegates to this conference must be skilled workers of the journeyperson’s status, in good standing in their local union and must be elected or selected. Where local union contracts, supplements, or bylaws provide for a skilled trades representative to be elected by the skilled trades workers from a skilled occupation, that representative shall attend the Skilled Trades Conference as a regular delegate. Such a delegate shall be counted as part of the total quota of regular delegates allowed by the local union.