Region 9A Blog

The Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the availability of the 2024 Richard ‘Dik’ Days Scholarship application.

If you’re a new member of the UAW, the New Member issue of Solidarity magazine will help give you a better understanding of how our organization f

Collective bargaining is the process in which a group of workers comes together and negotiates the terms of their contracts with one voice. Making their demands, together. Making a promise that whatever is offered to one will be rejected unless it is offered to all.

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Take a look at the guide and make a choice that’s good for our entire economy. Buy union today!

The UAW Financial Officers’ Conference will be held Sunday, March 24 through Friday, March 29, 2019, at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando, Florida. This conference is for local union presidents, financial secretaries/treasurers, trustees and recording secretaries.

In a special episode, AFL-CIO's Julie and Tim discuss plant closures at General Motors with longtime autoworker Brad Markell.

On October 13, 2018 the 21st Annual Homeless Veteran Stand Down took place at the Veterans Administration Hospital Togus, VA Augusta, Maine.  Staff and Volunteers spent the day supporting various services were provided to the homeless.  Region 9A UAW Veterans Council Donated $500, presented by the BMDA Veterans Committee members Donna Mathews (Chair) Retired D82, Gregg Moulton D87 and David Colfer D87.  Susie Whittington accepted the donation on behalf of the VA Homeless Veterans Program

HARVARD STUDENT WORKERS WIN THEIR UNION, JOIN UAW

Successful vote is latest victory in growing grad worker union movement

 

Boston, MA – Graduate workers at Harvard have voted 56%, 1,931 to 1,523, in favor of joining the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), according to ballots tallied by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The victory caps a multi-year effort, overcoming months of litigation that led the NLRB to throw out a previous election.

Care about jobs and the future of your community? Angry about sweatshops and the exploitation of children? Resolute that looking for the union label is as important today as it was 40 years ago? Think our country does best when we invest in ourselves?

Celebrate the Victories of the Past, the Promise of the Future The hours are brutally long; overtime pay doesn’t exist. Workplace safety is unheard of. Limbs are lost, and yet the machines grind on, indifferent to your suffering. Do you want to keep your job and feed your family? Your boss wants his roof repaired and a gift of his favorite liquor, too