UE Local 601, Grove City, PA (2025)

Our mission is twofold:
1) Educate the public about the role Unions have.
2) "Fighting for Fairness". Andrew Dinkelaker, UE Secretary-Treasurer, gives us an orientation as to what the UE is:
“The structure of our union is pretty straight forward. We have the Local level where you run your own affairs. You do your own dues, your own finances, set your own policies, vote your own contract, and settle your own grievances. You don’t have that “silliness” where the “staff” is going to come in, or some officer from the National is going to come down and overrule the wishes of the local membership. That’s the ground floor, the foundation, the Democracy of our Union in action. That’s the members running this organization. Next the Locals come together on a regional level. The regional level is where we bring up training and organizing issues or other challenges that face the Locals. You run it the way you want to run it! Locals select their delegates that come to these meetings and you run your affairs that way. You determine the direction that your region is going and what you want it to do. Now the three regions come together once every two years at a Biannual Convention. Again you elect your delegates, and you debate the issues and the policies and you set the agenda for the next two years. You make the important decisions that then go back to the locals for ratification. You vote on things we are going to do on the national level including organizing and what the finances of the union are doing. This is the highest decision making body of our Union. Finally on the National level, and that’s where I come out of, we oversee the entire organization. The National Union is built from the bottom up the structure is from the bottom up and most importantly the rules and regulations come from the bottom up! We are run by the members. The UE general officers are made up of three people; President Bruce Klipple, Secretary-Treasurer Myself, and the Director of Organization Bob Kingsley. We only administer the agenda You set forth at the Biannual Convention. There is also a legal department a research department an accounting department the folks that do the UE news here. All that is really designed to figure out how to best provide support to the Locals and the folks out in the field. This is what we mean when we say the MEMBERS RUN THIS UNION!

03/06/2025

The article speaks for itself!

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DiYb6xKu8/

12/12/2024

My name is Janet Gray (left, front in photo). I’m a renewal parts cataloger at Wabtec and a proud member of UE Local 618 in Erie, PA. Last May, I participated in UE Research and Education Fund’s Worker to Worker Exchange Program in Mexico, and I learned so much about international worker solidarity! I want every worker to have the same experience.

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Working for an American company that has manufacturing facilities in Mexico is tough. The bosses move our jobs south of the border, and when we protest, they say it’s just economics: Mexican workers are happy to do the same for less, so they get the work. As a long-time union member, that line makes me suspicious. I joined the Mexico exchange to see for myself.

One week in Mexico opened my eyes to the real story—the one the bosses don’t want us to know. UEREF brought rank-and-file UE members together to exchange knowledge with our allies at the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (Authentic Workers’ Front), an independent federation of labor unions, worker-owned cooperatives, and farmworker and community organizations across Mexico. When we arrived we saw clearly that our fellow workers are not the enemy. Greedy corporations are. I couldn’t believe the poverty I saw everyday workers living in. Their labor conditions are unsafe. Women are paid less and subject to sexual harassment. The minimum wage is far too low and the legal limit on working hours is far too high to enable people to build a decent life for their families. I felt a new respect for union history in the US and a wave of anger on behalf of my new Mexican friends.

The more we share our experiences and resources with our fellow workers across borders, the closer we’ll come to economic justice for workers the world over.

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10/31/2024

10/22/2024

GM said it couldn't afford raises. "The company had argued during the strike that it couldn’t meet union wage demands and remain competitive with nonunion automakers, but it eventually agreed to give workers an immediate 11% raise and additional raises that will increase wages at least another 14 percentage points over the next four years."

It gave immediate 11% RAISES! And how did the company fare?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/business/gm-earnings/index.html

NEGOTIATE TOGETHER for BETTER BENEFITS!!!

General Motors reported much stronger than expected third-quarter earnings and gave an outlook that puts it on the path for record earnings in 2024 – just a year after a costly strike by members of the United Auto Workers union.

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