UWUA News
Courage is the 99 Percent by Stewart Acuff, Chief of Staff, UWUA Share
Courage is sitting still, unable to breathe or see when the campus cops fill your face with a chemical weapon. Read More

Keep Updated and Stand in Solidarity with Fermi 2 Share
These members and the Local are in the midst of bargaining a first contract and are working hard to improve their standard of living and have them receive the dignity and respect they should have as valuable employees who are an integral part of keeping Fermi running. Read More

Comments from our Members & Friends
The Word We Don't Use Share
Wall Street and the banks destroyed $5 trillion of our nation's wealth and $50 trillion of the world's.

Bank puppet government demand workers sacrifice in Greece and Spain and Italy and Britain and in Wisconsin and Ohio and Indiana and Pennsylvania and Florida.

The Supreme Court converts money to free speech and soulless, lifeless corporations to human beings. The richest people in the world try to buy our country and our democracy.

And when we stand up together they beat and use chemical warfare on, imprison us.

When the state uses its might for the welfare of the rich and powerful, that is called fascism.

There is the word for all this--fascism the word we better accept as a reality. It is time we fought.

By Stewart Acuff, Chief of Staff, UWUA

Labor News
Good Air: Union Radio Broadcasts Labor’s Message, Rallying the Faithful and Reaching Out to a New Audience Share
It is my deepest hope that progressive talk radio will one day enjoy a level of commercial support sufficiently high that the producers of progressive radio are spending more time producing news and programming and less time fundraising. Read More

The Past is Present in Right to Work Debate Share
Popping across Indiana's labor battleground are signs of times both present and past. Read More

Labor Board Shutdown? Share
Congressional conservatives are furious that the NLRB wants to speed up union certification elections and require companies to display information on representation rights. Read More

Industry News
Protect the Great Lakes from Fracking Share
Four bills introduced to the Michigan House on Nov. 3, 2011 (House Bills 5149-5151 and 4736) must be passed to protect the largest source of above-ground freshwater in the world, the Great Lakes and their feeder water system inside the State of Michigan, from use by hydraulic fracturing companies seeking to drill for natural gas in Michigan shale. Read More

States of Denial
New Study Shows Michigan Ranks in Top 10 Among States in Which State and Local Politicos Ignore Public Opinion Share
There is polarized policy being imposed on unpolarized voters all over the country, and Michigan ranks among the states where this happens most frequently. Read More

Wall Street Banks Earned Billions In Profits Off Secret Fed Loans Made During The Financial Crisis Share
The total cost of the Fed loans amounted to $7.77 trillion, and unlike the funds made available by the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the loans came with virtually no strings attached for the banks. Read More

COPE (Political Education)
Divided Moderates Will Be Conquered Share
How can conservatives declare simultaneously that (1) it would be a terrible crime to raise taxes on the rich in the long term, and (2) it is an act of virtue to raise taxes on the middle class immediately? Has class warfare ever been so naked? Read More

Newt Gingrich Inc.: How to Make Money in Politics Share
Among Gingrich’s moneymaking ventures: a health-care think tank financed by six-figure dues from corporations. Read More

Human Rights
Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds Share
In many cities, services for the homeless are severely underfunded. The cities have spent millions of dollars to police and evict the protesters, but they've been shutting down shelters and enacting laws to prohibit homeless from sleeping overnight in public. Read More

Veterans Affairs and Information
Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Similar to Those Observed in Vietnam Veterans Share
Women Veterans’ roles in Afghanistan and Iraq have substantially expanded, with much higher levels of exposure to combat. Thus, women Veterans in these more recent conflicts may have more in common with their male contemporaries, in relation to PTSS risk, than with their female counterparts from the Vietnam era. Read More