Our International Union Knows How to Bargain

The International Union has blazed the trail for American workers for over 60 years. The bargaining accomplishments of the UAW are a matter of record. We've negotiated pensions, health insurance, job security, health and safety standards, fair work procedures, joint quality programs, and many other innovations.

Yet this hasn't happened by accident.

It's taken unity and solidarity and courage of UAW members.

But it's also required dedicated International leaders and regional directors.

UAW international representatives are skilled, well-informed, and dedicated to our interests. They work with our local union leadership. And they are backed by a top notch staff of professionals: lawyers, actuaries, financial analysts, and other experts.

UAW lawyers have fought for us all the way to the Supreme Court -- and have won.

Our pension experts have helped design some of the most innovative pensions in the country, and they've fought to improve and protect our pensions despite corporate mergers, buyouts, and other maneuvers.

Our health and safety department inspects workplaces, educates local health and safety teams, and fights for federal standards to protect us.

A union's bargaining strength depends on organizing new members.

We educate our members and communities about the goals and accomplishments of unions.

And we work to make sure that political changes help -- not hurt --workers and our families.

We publish Solidarity magazine with its lively letters-to-the editor pages and reports on the issues and activities that matter to us.

We fight in every arena -- at the bargaining table, in Congress and state legislatures, in the courts, and in community organizations -- to protect our rights to a job, decent retirement, and safe workplace.

Dues supply the resources that keep our union financially able to defend our interests.

 

"We went with the UAW to gain the power that they have, the expertise that they have, the resources and the knowledge."
Dave Wilkinson
UAW Local 2600
Kent Community Hospital