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25 Mar, 2019

2019 Spring Conference JUNE 6 - 9, 2019 Registration is now open for this exciting educational conference. This year’s conference will be held at Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center. The conference call letter will be mailed out in February with the full details of the conference

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Federal unions—and all unions—are under attack.

In March, the Trump administration took its most blatantly anti-worker, anti-union action yet: an executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.

Now representatives in Congress have introduced the bipartisan Protect America’s Workforce Act, which would overturn Trump’s executive order.

We are asking every single American who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers to join a union to call their member of Congress right now.

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Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Last night, the Trump administration took its most blatantly anti-worker, anti-union action yet: an executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.

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We Proudly Celebrate Black History Month

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