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Get informed! Tune in to hear directly from candidates running in the 2026 UAW International Officer Election about their vision for our union. Virtual candidate forums will be held for the following offices: 7/23 - International Secretary-Treasurer 7/27 - International Vice President 7/30 - International President All Candidate Forums will begin at approximately 6 pm ET. More information regarding how to access the Candidate Forums will be provided on the Monitor’s website at uawmonitor.com/elections. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about each candidate's priorities and make an informed decision. Beginning on or about 8/21, ballots will be mailed to UAW members, with a return deadline of 10/5/26.

"Archie, don't fool around with Local 57!" UAW Local 57 members send a message to International Harvester CEO Archie McCardell during their strike in Fort Wayne, Indiana, circa 1979. 📸 @ReutherLibrary

For nearly two years, the Harper’s Magazine union has been negotiating a contract. During that time, management has refused to commit to raising minimum salaries for even the lowest-paid members of the unit despite the many concessions made by the union. Management’s sole offer to raise wages came with the condition that workers give up their employer-provided health insurance. This proposal is unacceptable. In the past year alone, the living wage for a single New Yorker, as calculated by MIT and the Living Wage Institute, has increased from $68,338 to $79,469. The stagnant salaries of union members, therefore, represent an effective year-on-year decrease in compensation. As contributors, subscribers, and readers of Harper’s, we stand in solidarity with the members of UAW Local 2110 in their fight for a fair contract and urge management to commit to meaningfully increasing the magazine’s salary minimums. Visit harpersmagazineunion.com to read the full letter and add your name.

"The editorial staff of Harper’s Magazine, union members of UAW Local 2110, held a one-day strike yesterday to protest the Magazine’s contract offer." nycclc.org/news/harpers-m…

UAW members — Your voice matters! Update or confirm your contact information by 7/23 at myinfo.uaw.org to ensure you receive a ballot on time for the 2026 UAW International Officer Election and get the latest news and updates from the UAW.

Vintage UAW logos from the front cover of a pamphlet for the union’s education conference, circa late 1940s. From our union's archives at the @ReutherLibrary.

BREAKING: Michigan’s labor movement, including the Michigan AFL-CIO, @UAW and the Michigan Education Association, issued the following joint statement on Governor Whitmer’s veto of the stalled bills:

We joined the @harpersmagunion and @UAWRegion9A to fight for a fair contract because workers should never be forced to choose between their healthcare and a living wage — It is an unconscionable choice. Management needs to do right by the people who make this magazine what it is.

"We need three things from any AI transition—the right to join a union, a human-first policy, and the working class to benefit from the extra value we generate." — UAW President Shawn Fain

In a new white paper, the UAW outlines the problems at the heart of the so-called “free trade” regime, and the impacts of free trade on the working class across borders. The union makes bold demands to radically transform the system of North American trade: — Build Here to Sell Here provisions ensuring that companies create and keep good jobs in the United States if they want to sell in the U.S. market. — Real Labor Rights that are enforceable and apply to workers in all three countries. — Strong Standards on Pay & Other Key Issues, including a new Manufacturing Wage Floor for North America and strict health and environmental protections. To read the union's bold new vision on trade, visit UAW.org/trade

On July 10, 1936, the UAW formally joined the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). The CIO's emphasis on organizing by industry, not by craft, stressed the common interests of workers across job classifications. One of the strengths of this model was that it required overcoming racial divides within the workplace. The CIO ran anti-racist training to facilitate Black and white workers organizing together to fight employers. At its core was the idea that Black and white workers have a common enemy in capitalists, and dividing workers by race intends to weaken working-class power. According to historian and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, the CIO was one of the most successful anti-racist efforts in U.S. history. He wrote that because of the CIO, workers ​“in the steel and automotive industries have been thrown together, Black and white, as fellow workers striving for the same objects. There has been on this account an astonishing spread of interracial tolerance and understanding.”

Harper’s Magazine was founded in NYC in 1850 & has been a treasured publication here since then. But the leadership needs to step up & offer their workers a fair contract, one that pays enough to live here. Right now, they are far behind their peers. Proud to join @harpersmagunion @uawregion9a & the growing caucus of elected officials who support unions on the picket line today.

Solidarity with @harpersmagunion @Local2110UAW who have spent nearly two years negotiating for a fair contract. All workers deserve the basics: healthcare and a living wage. Strong unions build stronger workplaces, stronger communities, and a stronger New York.

RT @Brianr4NY: Rain or shine we always stand with workers! So proud to have rallied with @UAW2110 @UAWRegion9A outside of Harpers Magazine…

UAW members — Your voice matters! Update or confirm your contact information at myinfo.uaw.org to ensure you receive a ballot in the 2026 UAW International Officer Election and get the latest news and updates from the UAW.

"While most unions played it safe in New York’s recent elections, @UAWRegion9A took big swings in supporting progressive insurgent candidates like @claireforny and @DarializaforNY — and won." jacobin.com/2026/07/mancil…

🎉 Congratulations to the UAW Local 2300 Organizing Committee and the 7 newest members of UAW Local 2300 on unanimously voting to join the Local! Your solidarity shows Cornell University the power of collective action. Welcome to the UAW Region 9 family! ✊ #UnionStrong

Tomorrow, July 9th, our union will be engaging in a one-day strike to send a clear message to management: all of our workers deserve a living wage and health care. Please join us on the picket line and rally with us at 1 PM.

"Maybe, instead of giving ICE $250 billion of your tax dollars to terrorize our communities, maybe instead we ought to be investing in our people." — @AbdulElSayed

"We just have not seen the kind of offers from management that would tell us a strike is off the table," Brian Holbrook, a public defender and @alaa2325 member, told @QueensEagle. "We need management to know the seriousness of the situation." queenseagle.com/all/2026/7/8/a…