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UAW members are leading the fight for economic justice. This UAW account is administered by union members represented by the NewsGuild-CWA 34022. https://linktr.ee/uawunion

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UAW @uaw.org · 17d

📢Calling all UAW communicators!

Join the webinar "Labor History Through the Lens and Canvas" with John Davis from #UAWRegion8

🗓 Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 6:30 PM ET. REGISTER: bit.ly/4gnd2Du

Join the webinar "Labor History Through the Lens and Canvas" with John Davis from #UAWRegion8

🗓 Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 6:30 PM ET. REGISTER: https://bit.ly/4gnd2Du

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

At a rally on Friday, community and political allies joined the Mercy East strikers to call out the hypocrisy and greed of one of the region’s largest employers.

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Yet instead of investing in patients or frontline caregivers, President and CEO Javon Bea pocketed $36.2 million during that period, including $11.5 million in 2023 alone.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

Between 2020 and 2023, Mercyhealth System brought in over $2 billion in total revenue — more than enough to ensure safe staffing and quality patient care.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

"We want to give our patients the bestcare and comfort we can, but how are we supposed to do that when we don’t even feel safe ourselves? Mercyhealth didn’t seem to have any trouble finding security guards once we started our picket line — I guess it was possible after all.”

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

“Mercyhealth is denying us any sense of security — even those of us working late into the evenings,” said Anna Farrington, one of the UAW members on strike at Mercyhealth. “We never know who might come in at any hour, and there are so few of us on staff.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

Among the key issues keeping the picket line going is the employer’s proposal to increase health care costs, which are already a strain on the workforce. Low wages and a lack of safety are other issues that mobilized the walk-out in July.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

UAW members at Mercyhealth East provide care in many roles from nurses to x-ray techs, receptionists to building maintenance. If Mercy runs, it’s because of these dedicated workers.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

"Mercy East UAW members take pride in caring for their community, and they understand that you can’t deliver quality patient care when management keeps turning good jobs into low-wage, high-stress positions. Mercyhealth needs to start valuing both its workers and its patients.”

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

“They’ve held the line for 100 days because they know what’s at stake — the quality of care their patients receive and the dignity of their own work.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

“There’s no question that our members at Mercyhealth East are stronger today than they were on July 2 when they first walked out,” said UAW Local 95 President Judy McRoberts.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

On Friday, workers took a moment to celebrate their strength and unity as they continue to push back against an employer that is putting profits before patients.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

They’re fighting to restore quality care and fair jobs at Mercyhealth, where high-level decisions have turned what should be good, stable caregiving jobs into overworked, underpaid positions that put patient care at risk.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

Since July 2, these dedicated health care workers have been standing up not just for themselves, but for their patients.

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UAW @uaw.org · 10h

🧵 FIGHTING FOR BETTER PATIENT CARE, MERCYHEALTH EAST UAW MEMBERS MARK 100 DAYS ON STRIKE

UAW Local 95 Unit 14 members at Mercyhealth’s East Clinic in Janesville, WI, have reached a major milestone — 100 days on strike.

Photo of UAW Local 95 members and supporters on the picket line at Mercyhealth East in Janesville, WI.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14h

When will Volkswagen do its job and follow the law? And when will the federal government do theirs and actually enforce it? Workers at the VW plant in Chattanooga, TN, deserve better.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 15h

Here Are the Facts About UAW-CIO Radio Station WDET-FM
📻 Article from @uaw.org Local 174 newspaper about the radio station, @wdet.bsky.social, which the union would eventually gift to Wayne State University. 1949, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Newspaper article about WDET with photo of UAW staff inspecting the radio station.

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UAW @uaw.org · 15h

"If we are to live in a world in which universities emerge from the current moment as sites of thought, learning, and community... we cannot let higher education unions be defeated."

http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books

University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

www.publicbooks.org

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 2d

@uaw.org president Shawn Fain laid out four priorities for a workers’ political program

✅Fair wages
✅Health care
✅Retirement
✅Winning back our time

...and a strategy to fight for those essential needs: building toward a mass strike in May 2028

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Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fi...

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UAW @uaw.org · 1d

We extend our deepest condolences to his family, colleagues, and the countless people Kent Wong positively affected during his brilliant and profound life.

UAW @uaw.org · 1d

Kent supported all of our efforts to organize at the University of California, fought alongside us in countless political battles in California, provided invaluable leadership in the immigrants’ rights movement, and helped the U.S. labor movement connect with workers’ struggles around the globe.

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UAW @uaw.org · 1d

He also understood the importance of international solidarity, working to foster relationships across borders and advocating for peaceful collective action to take on powerful interests.

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UAW @uaw.org · 1d

Wong was a champion for immigrant rights and undocumented communities, helping to establish the first Dream Resource Center and the Dream Summer Fellowship program.

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UAW @uaw.org · 1d

Deeply committed to social and economic justice, Wong served as director of the @uclalabor.bsky.social for over 30 years, mentoring and inspiring countless students and activists while leading efforts to expand the center’s ability to better serve the educational needs of the community.

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UAW @uaw.org · 1d

🧵 The UAW mourns the passing of Kent Wong, who dedicated his life to defending and advocating for the rights of working people in the Los Angeles area and beyond.

Photo of labor and human rights activist Kent Wong speaking at a 1995 UAW recognition strike at UCLA.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 1d

@uaw.org Local 174 flying squadron armband. Circa 1939s-40s, from the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Vital to the UAW’s early successes, flying squadrons were groups of union members ready to mobilize and support in solidarity fellow workers on strike at other workplaces.

Blue armband for UAW local 174 flying squadron.

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