General Executive Board Welcomes New Members, Demands AI for Public Good

The UE General Executive Board, composed of elected rank-and-file leaders from across the country, met on May 28 and 29 in Pittsburgh. In addition to discussing UE’s organizational, educational, political action and international work, GEB members debated and approved a statement on the use of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) technology. Originally drafted by a group of rank-and-file members from UE’s higher education locals, the statement “AI for Public Good, Not Private Profit” calls for “public and worker control of Artificial Intelligence technologies, and for the end of their use for mass surveillance and as weapons of war.”

UE Local 255 Fights for Coworker and Wins!

Local 255 members Bevin Barber-Campbell & Tim Rousseau write, “After a five-month, well-organized campaign, UE Local 255 won an important battle with Hunger Mountain Co-op, pressuring management to uphold the internal hiring procedures specified in our contract.”

North Carolina Library Workers Organize Against Staff Cuts

Local 150 member Zac Morgan writes, “Members of Library Workers United (LWU), a chapter of UE Local 150 in North Carolina, held their first public action on May 11 outside the Wake County Commissioners’ public budget meeting. This rally and the public comments given by workers and their supporters was the culmination of a yearlong campaign against cuts to staff hours in the Wake County Public Library system.”

Local 1186 Joins With Other Unions to Hold Governors’ Candidate Forum

On June 2 of this year, a coalition of local unions and labor advocacy organizations in Madison, Wisconsin held an historic event that was nearly two months in the making, reports UE Local 1186 President Michael Tomaloff — a worker-driver forum for the candidates running for governor of Wisconsin. Read Tomaloff’s full report »

Now Is the Time for Medicare for All

Our broken health care system is getting worse by the day. With recent cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, 17 million more people could lose their health care this year. This is on top of 26 million people who are already uninsured. Employers continue to demand that workers pay ever higher shares of the cost of insurance, while insurance company profits continue to rise.

The solution is Medicare for All, the kind of universal, public system supported by UE for over 80 years. It is more popular than ever — 63 percent of all voters support it — but it won’t become a reality unless working people organize to demand it.

National Nurses United and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer have launched a new petition together with other UE allies demanding that Congress act on the bold promise of a guaranteed system of truly comprehensive health care that every person in the United States deserves. Sign the petition »

UE has also joined a coalition of over 325 unions and other organizations in a letter warning against letting “skeptical health care policy wonks” keep working people from demanding “the boldest possible reform” of our healthcare system, Medicare for All. Read more »

Retired UE President Carl Rosen Honored

Since his retirement at the end of October, former UE General President Carl Rosen has been honored for his life of service to the working class in the halls of Congress, by the Chicago City Council, and by the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice. Read more, and watch video of Rosen receiving the 2026 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award »

Barney Frank, One of the First Openly Gay Members of Congress, Was Close UE Ally

Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, who died on May 19, has been widely commemorated as one of the first openly gay members of Congress — and the first to come out voluntarily. Less known is the leading role he played in assisting UE locals fighting plant closings, from the early 1980s through 2010. Throughout his more than three decades in office, he was one of UE’s closest allies in Congress — and UE one of his staunchest defenders when he was attacked for his sexuality. Read more »