THE ISSUES
This year is the most important moment for the American labor movement in the last 50 years. The Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case is expected to gut every public sector union in the country and dramatically weaken the power of all working families, union and non-union alike. This new arena requires new strategies to maintain the gains of our predecessors and keep the fight alive to improve our working conditions and our communities.
HIGH PARTICIPATION
The old unionism was a system in which you signed a card... and that was it. Entrenched leadership kept management happy and the rank-and-file uninformed and disempowered. UAW 2865 doesn't work like that. To win we all need to come together for actions, marches, occupations, rallies, and strikes! I will continue to work to make sure every member is an involved and actively engaged unionist.
SUPERMAJORITY UNIONISM
We can't win the demands that affect all of us unless we're all involved. The percentage of our coworkers who are in the union - our union density - is a direct indication of how much power we have. The more members who join, the more power we have, the bigger our collective wins! Let's organize together to get out union density above 90%.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
For too long the labor movement has separated out issues at the workplace from issues in the community or among a subset of the membership. The truth is workers exist in both the workplace AND the community. You don't stop worrying about the rent or police brutality when you clock in and we can only succeed when we fight for all of our coworkers.
