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On average one worker is killed and thousands seriously injured every week of every year in the building and construction industry. Most of these deaths and injuries are avoidable. The Construction Division of the CFMEU and its members have been fined  tens of millions of dollars in the courts since the onslaught begun by the […]

EDITORIAL: Class-Oriented Trade Unionism is Necessary to Permanently Defeat Monopolists as National “Right-to-Work” Bill is Reintroduced In February, Senator Rand Paul reintroduced the National Right to Work Act to the United States Senate. Since he was first elected, Sen. Paul has attempted to push this bill, financed and backed by the largest monopolists in the U.S., down

A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story The UE NEWS asked retired UE Political Action Director Chris Townsend to write a summary of how UE’s membership base has changed over the years. Brother Townsend joined the UE staff in the late 1980s, when the membership was primarily (though not exclusively) manufacturing workers, and

Eighty Years Since the Victory Over Fascism, WFTU on Victory Day 2025 On May 9, 1945, with the final defeat of Nazi Germany and the collapse of the fascist axis, the peoples of the world achieved a historic victory. The red flag bearing the hammer and sickle had already been raised over the Reichstag in

Editor’s Note: LUEL’s Harry Bridges School of Labor will present a viewing of Matewan for its May classes. The viewing will be split between the to nights, so join us on Wednesday May 7th at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT and Saturday May 10th at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT. Matewan, directed by John Sayles, in 1987, documents—though with some added

Unions Finally Step Up as Trump Deportations Hit Labor Be mindful of the words of Catholic Priest Martin Niemöller, First they came for the immigrants, but I wasn’t one, so I said nothing … Fortunately, the U.S. labor movement has begun to rally behind Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART)

Statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions on the 12th Anniversary of the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh The World Federation of Trade Unions expresses its solidarity with the working class of Bangladesh on the occasion of the 12th dark anniversary of the Rana Plaza bloody crime which had cost the lives of 1134

To Fight the Monopolist Railroad Cartels We Must Unite to Fight for Public Rail For too long the workers in the railroad industry have faced an all-out assault by the monopolist cartels running the railroads. As we learned during the 2022 fight for a contract these cartels are run using a perpetual speed-up known as

By Jonathan Kissam | Photo Courtesy of ueunion.org | UE News Reuse Policy In the 1930s, as rank-and-file workers in the electrical manufacturing industry were establishing UE in workplaces like the giant General Electric plant in Erie, PA (Local 506) and Sargent Lock in New Haven, CT (Local 243), a union with a similar “Them and Us” philosophy of unionism