UE POLITICAL ACTION
Reason to Celebrate ...
And to Work
For a Better Future
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 was truly a historic moment in the history of our country.
Political Action Updates
Voters Choose Obama and Reject the McCain - Bush Program
In a special statement, UE's three national officers note there is a great deal to celebrate.
But they also point out that if real change is to take hold, there's much work to be done as well.
Here's the complete statement ... ...
Issues Briefings
Health Care & Retirement
There are no more pressing issues being faced by working people in the U.S. than the disaster we call our "health care system" and the steady attack on our pensions and retirement income by big business and its political cronies.
The Health Care Crisis
There's abundant evidence that our health care system is disintegrating. We need single-payer national health care ... and we need it now! Health care should be a right, not a privilege ...
Retirement Crisis
After a lifetime of work, the prospect of an old age spent working, living in poverty, or both, are frightening thoughts. Yet, that's what's facing millions of workers unless we do something about it now!
Congressional Scorecard
HOW'D THEY VOTE?
UE's 2007
Congressional
Scorecard
Our annual review of how Congress voted on issues that impact our lives as working people.
While Democrats won slim majorities in both houses of Congress in 2006, all too often they were unable to unite on any number of key issues — the Iraq war, restoring the right to organize, healthcare, trade, and civil liberties — just to name a few.
Here's our overview of the first session of the 110th Congress, including the issues we used to build our scorecard — and our scorecard (the rankings for 2007).
The Right to Organize
International Worker Justice Campaign
At simultaneous press conferences in three states, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has been asked to investigate why some U.S. workers are denied a fundamental human right: the right to organize and bargain collectively.
At the press conferences, held Monday, December 10 — International Human Rights Day — in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, UE local leaders, members and supporters announced the filing of our formal request for an IACHR hearing into why, for some public employees in the United States, union bargaining is outlawed.
Third UE Iniative in the Fight for Collective Bargaining
The request to the OAS is the third international legal initiative undertaken by UE in the fight to win collective bargaining rights for all public employees. Cases have also been brought before the ILO, the human rights agency of the United Nations and, through the efforts of Mexico's FAT, under the side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These stories are available in UE News Update:
ILO
• UN Labor Panel Finds U.S. in Violation, Calls for Repeal of NC Bargaining Ban (4/07)
NAFTA
• Unions Charge North Carolina Violating NAFTA Labor Rules (10/06)
• Full Complaint (pdf format)
• Mexico Looks for Answers on US Labor Rights Violations (11/07)