Join us for a virtual 90-minute training for union leaders and members that will be leading election scenario planning at their union local and/or in their community. Trump and his minions have made...

The fight to maintain open, free, and fair elections, and the work to build a strong resistance to the voter intimidation led and orchestrated by the oligarchs and their puppets in government, is not ...

An August poll found that support for Medicare for All has risen significantly in the past year, from 54 to 60 percent. Among voters who have significant medical debt ($1,000 or more) or who have been...

Higher prices ahead thanks to war and corporate greed; nearly half of private-sector workers saw wages decline from 2021 to 2024; deportation policies have shut down job creation; Canadian unions dema...

Nandell Baines, the president of UE Local 977, passed away on August 16. Local 977 represents Hallcon rail crew drivers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Kansas. “She just fought for the me...

Fifteen years ago, on September 17, 2011, approximately one thousand people gathered in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, launching the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

Join us for a virtual 90-minute training for union leaders and members that will be leading election scenario planning at their union local and/or in their community. Trump and his minions have made...

Delegates to UE’s 11th Convention, held in September 1946, not only debated resolutions and elected officers, they also got to see the world premier of a 37-minute film, one of the first films ever pr...

Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.

Labor for Democracy, a network of labor unions committed to upholding democracy and the right to organize, is calling for federal and state investigations into recent reports of illegal and unconstitu...

Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.

As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.

In July, the members of Local 115, who work at the Refresco bottling plant, won a fellow worker his job back after he was unjustly fired. Ky-Mani Kitt, a member of Local 115, suffers from a chronic me...

In Teamsters Metropolis, historian (and one-time UE activist) Ryan Patrick Murphy argues that the Teamsters were targeted by the federal government not only because they were, at the time, the fastest...

The UE NEWS takes a look at the economics news working people need to know. New studies demonstrate the reality of the affordability crisis, examine why American employers are so stingy with vacation ...

After three weeks of very difficult contract negotiations and the rejection of the company’s last, best, and final proposal, members of the Joint Bargaining Committee (JBC) unions at GE Appliances Fac...

In June, members of the Japanese union Zenroren, an important UE ally, flew into Chicago for the Labor Notes Conference and extended their stay to visit important labor history sites and meet with UE ...

On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. He was a dad driving a work van with his crew when he was gunned down. Then on Monday, July 13, ICE un...

On the morning of July 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents murdered a Houston construction worker on his way to work. Less than a week later, ICE agents murdered another man in Biddeford, Ma...

From June 12-14, thousands of union members from across the country, including over 30 from UE, gathered in Chicago for the 2026 Labor Notes Conference. The conference this year focused on the labor m...

Join Freedom Trainers, Labor for Democracy, and May Day Strong for a 1.5 hour virtual training on how labor and worker power can help defeat authoritarianism. We will cover the authoritarian threat, i...