SUNDAY:
Convention Opens
A Tough
Union That Makes a Difference
Opening during a "time of both great dangers and great opportunities for working people"
rank-and-file delegates to the 69th UE National Convention heard UE
General President John Hovis deliver his keynote address and from U.S.
Representative Jesse Jackson ...
MONDAY
MORNING
Delegates Adopt Bargaining Goals
The UE Convention adopts policies on collective bargaining, health care.
MONDAY
AFTERNOON
Organize
the Unorganized!
UE Convention approves organizing plan, hears reports from the front lines.
TUESDAY
MORNING
Information is Power
Delegates adopt plans for political and union education.
TUESDAY
AFTERNOON
The 'Urgent Necessity'
Of International Solidarity
UE Convention delegates affirm the importance of international solidarity.
WEDNESDAY
MORNING
'Bring the
Troops Home,' Delegates Say
The 69th UE Convention called for an immediate end to the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and reaffirmed the union΄s fight against racism.
WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON
Officers Re-elected to Restructured Union
The Convention approved a restructuring plan that now goes to the membership for ratification.
THURSDAY
MORNING
Convention
Affirms Public Education,
Transit; Slams Privatization
In its final session, the 69th UE Convention denounced privatization and boosted mass transit and public education.
