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The Struggle for Class-Independent Unionism in the Face of State Intervention
The UAW Monitor has repeatedly interfered in our union’s affairs and influenced the ongoing election for top UAW leadership, continuing a long history of state attacks that have weakened labor unions and protected profits. To build independent working-class power to fight our bosses, we must oppose state intervention and defend our unions as democratic organizations.
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Shop Floor Perspectives: A View From the IPS Tier
Mike Davis has worked at the Toledo Molding & Die plant for 13 years, and his position in the IPS sector has meant that he and his coworkers have missed out on many benefits won by workers in Big Three plants. Mike speaks to Margie Thornton of Daily Struggle about why he believes in the power of a union anyway.
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The Case for Replacing UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky
In 2024, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky carried out an effort to intervene in UAW policy decisions and overturn the UAW’s opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Barofsky should be replaced for attacking the political independence of the UAW and violating his duties under the consent decree.
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Industrial Organizing in New York City’s Cultural Sector
With high union density, workers at New York City’s numerous nonprofit movie theaters can look beyond single-employer negotiations. We can develop an ambitious sectoral strategy to wrest control over our work from bosses and billionaire donors, fundamentally changing how arts nonprofits operate. The leverage is there, but to use it to build power, workers in the sector will have to break old habits and take things into our own hands.
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The UAWD Membership Votes Not to Endorse Any Candidates in the 2026 IEB Election
With ballots mailing this week for the UAW International Executive Board election, we share why the UAWD membership voted to not endorse any candidates at our meeting last week, despite running the campaign to elect Shawn Fain four years ago. We explain our assessment that Fain has been co-opted and re-entrenched the old-guard Administration Caucus, and why neither Fain nor any of his opponents have met the low and achievable bar put forward in our IEB Endorsee Program for building a militant UAW.
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“Just Fucking End It!”: Walkouts over Forced Overtime
Workers are walking out at non-union Toyota plants in Alabama in response to forced overtime and rotating shifts. Can the fight to take back our time be a lightning rod for union campaigns?
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The Road to UAW Divestment: Fighting for Palestine Solidarity through Shop Floor Militancy
UAW members from around the country came together for an event, co-hosted by UAWD and UAWLabor4Palestine, to share how they’ve organized in their workplaces for Palestine solidarity and dig into how they won the fight for divestment from Israel bonds at June’s UAW Constitutional Convention.
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Israel Bonds Divestment Is Important! Why?
For the US labor movement, the UAW’s divestment from Israel bonds, decided by members at the union’s 39th Constitutional Convention, in June 2026, after decades of rank-and-file organizing, marks a significant step toward making international solidarity a reality—but there’s still a long way to go.
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UAWD ConCon Strategy Roundtable: Winning Divestment through a Vision of Class Struggle
The six leaders of UAWD’s team at the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention discuss the class-struggle strategy that enabled UAWD to lead the effort to divest the UAW from Israel bonds. Standing on the shoulders of decades of Palestine solidarity organizing, the win was made possible through the past year of organizing Local UAWD Chapters grounded in shop-floor struggle and the development of a UAWD ConCon program, which featured resolutions to enable rank-and-file militancy to fight layoffs, fight ICE, and in support of Palestine.
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UAW Divests from Israel Bonds
After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing.
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Standing Down: Reflections on Shawn Fain’s Presidency
UAWD Steering Committee members present a deep dive into Shawn Fain’s presidency, through the lens of the pressures to deliver on the Stand Up Strike and the co-optive trap of bureaucracy. Fain has turned away from class struggle unionism, failing to follow through on his refreshing shift toward militant rhetoric and his influential push to reinvigorate the idea of a mass general strike. UAW members should understand Fain as the more progressive face of the old-guard Administration Caucus. Though he was elected to put an end to their stranglehold, Fain has instead re-entrenched his former antagonists and been realigned as their new leader.