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General Executive Board Meets, Issues Statements on Climate Change, Palestine
  • Local 170’s Busy Legislative Season Sees Anti-Privatization Victory, Strike Solidarity
  • UE Helps Mexican Workers Defeat Attack on Labor Rights
  • UE Local 150 Condemns Undemocratic State Budget
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UE Local 228 Joins Poor People's Campaign Occupation of New Hampshire Executive Council Chambers
  • Janus Will Not Stop Workers from Organizing Unions
  • The Poor People's Campaign Takes Labor Rights Protest to Capitol, Supreme Court
  • UE General Executive Board Calls for Support of the Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future (OFF) Act, HR 3671, and the Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act
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Supreme Court: Workers Have No Labor Rights the Boss is Bound to Respect
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  • 1968: Municipal Workers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign
  • Blood and Oil: A Middle East Primer for UE Members
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  • Union Rights - Management Rights - Recognition Clause

    There is no union contract written that covers every possible situation that can occur. There are some that try, but they are usually incomprehensible to mere mortals. Because of this there are usually two clauses in the contracts that are basically general in nature — the "Management Rights" clause and the "Recognition" clause.

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  • Resources for Surviving in Open-Shop America

    The Supreme Court has stripped union security from public-sector workers nationwide, and more and more states are enacting so-called "right-to-work" laws that prohibit union security. UE has put together this collection of resources for doing political education about "right-to-work" and building effective unions in "right-to-work" conditions.

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  • Preparing for and Conducting a Strike

    A strike — or the threat of one — remains the single most powerful inducement to force employers to deal with the demands of workers. Strikes are not everyday events. But the capability to conduct one should shape how a Local operates both in the short term and for the long haul.

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Local 150 members speak out against 2019 NC state budget back-room deals

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