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  • Action on the Job: Tips and Traps
    David Cohen, Judy Atkins
    Nov 16 2011 - 4:40pm

    Workers have the right to organize and take action on the job, even with a contract and grievance procedure in place. But stewards need to know how to bend the rules without getting people in trouble.

  • Chicago Warehouse Workers Navigate Maze of Contractors to Organize
    Jane Slaughter
    Nov 11 2011 - 11:08am

    The UE launched an organizing committee among the 50,000 warehouse workers southwest of Chicago, who handle a trillion dollars worth of goods every year. The union looks to unite workers from across the dizzying array of contractors that operate in the warehouses.

  • United Electrical Workers Celebrate 75 Turbulent Years

    The union’s convention this week, in Pittsburgh, showed the UE spirit alive and kicking despite the hammering it’s taken along with the rest of the labor movement.

  • GE to Unions: Drop Dead
    Alexandra Brown
    May 24 2011 - 4:18pm

    Flush with cash, fresh from plant closings, and celebrated at the White House, GE said the company would still seek to double workers' costs for health insurance and eliminate new hires' pensions. Bargaining with 11 unions opened yesterday in New York.

  • CWA’s ‘Speed Matters’ Campaign: Defending an Open, High-Speed Internet
    George Kohl
    Feb 18 2011 - 9:10pm
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    For five years, CWAers across the country have worked with allies, including major civil rights organizations, the Sierra Club, and others, to build a campaign to bring high-speed internet to rural and urban America.

  • Stop the Auction!: UE Seeks Solidarity

    UPDATE: The auction action has been canceled. Esterline Technologies improved its severance offer--on the condition that UE Local 204 not attempt to stop the auction. The local said that more than $600,000 for 85 members is at stake. More information will be forthcoming.

  • In Connecticut, City Employees Seek Allies to Save Services
    Carol Lambiase
    Jan 12 2011 - 1:26pm

    Public employees in Norwich, Connecticut, a former mill town of about 37,000, are organizing to preserve jobs and services and to get their scheduled wage increases. Our campaign marshals the facts about what members do, identifies allies, and finds better ways to run the city.

  • Plant Auction Blocked by Mass Picket Threat
    Jane Slaughter
    Dec 17 2010 - 1:33am

    In a move to save factory jobs that evokes shades of the ’30s, the United Electrical Workers planned mass picketing this month to blockade the doors of a shuttered factory to stop the auction of its machines.

  • With UAW’s King for Cover, Obama Backhands Labor in Korea Trade Deal
    Mischa Gaus
    Dec 17 2010 - 1:09am

    President Obama finalized the largest trade deal since NAFTA on December 3. It looks like he cut and pasted the same corporate-friendly script he inherited from previous administrations, Democrat and Republican alike.

  • Threat of Mass Mobilization Backs Company Down

    Last month United Electrical Workers Local 204 in Taunton, Massachusetts, called for mass picketing and blockading of entrances to a shuttered factory to stop the auction of its machines. In response, the company has postponed the auction, in a temporary victory for the union and the city, which is moving forward to take the plant equipment by eminent domain.