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UE policy for 2025-27, adopted by delegates at last month's UE convention, has now been posted on the UE website at ueunion.org/ue-policy

#womenshistorymonth UE150 weekly member highlight is Samantha Anderson, a food service tech, in N.C. State University dining hall. Sam has played a key role in getting our new organizing campaign in her workplace off the ground. Salute! 🫡 @WorkersAtState

Read the full letter here: citizen.org/article/no-fun…

Over 250 organizations have joined our letter demanding no additional funding for Trump's war of choice on Iran. The additional $50 BILLION the Trump admin has requested would be enough to restore SNAP for 4 million Americans. Congress must refuse funding for this illegal war.

Happening tomorrow!!

“Together, through these seemingly small acts, we can apply collective pressure to stop the genocide in Palestine."

Geist said, "We encourage member-owners and shoppers to commit to a personal boycott of Israeli products currently sold in the store while we continue to pressure the board to do the right thing and walk away from supporting genocide…

UE Local 667 members attended a rally on March 6 in Pittsburgh to pressure Howmet into cancelling it's contract with Lockheed-Martin for F35 jet parts which are used over Palestine and Iran. The rally was organized by Pittsburgh BDS and the Howmet Accountability Project.

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CalCare is back. California nurses and patients are fighting to pass it. Guaranteed health care for ALL is possible. #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll

"As workers who serve our community and are out walking every day, we wanted to make it clear that postal workers are not associated with ICE, and that we want them off of postal property," writes letter carrier Emmett Bongaarts in Minneapolis labornotes.org/blogs/2026/03/… 🧵1/5

Today is International Women's Day, an annual celebration reaffirming the struggle for women's rights. UE has a long history of fighting for women’s rights. Read about the history of women in UE here: ueunion.org/tags/womens-hi…

Despite the companies’ embrace of violence, UE & other CIO unions were successful in winning contracts that made up for the purchasing power workers had lost during the war, & which established for the first time a decent standard of living for industrial workers in the U.S. 8/8

Following the attacks, 10,000 outraged Philadelphia residents gathered at City Hall to demand that the mayor “order police not to back up with their clubs the company’s attempts to keep workers’ wages down.” (7/8)

Today marks the 80th anniversary of a brutal police attack on striking UE members in Philadelphia. In January 1946, UE members at General Electric and Westinghouse went on strike to recover the wages they had lost during World War II… (1/8)