Collective Bargaining

RESOLUTION:  Collective Bargaining Rights for All Workers! Employees of state and local governments provide vital services such as health care, sanitation, and education. Yet millions of workers – state and municipal workers in half of all states – have no legal...

Workers Bill of Rights

Workers Bill of Rights [ Mental Health Workers Bill of Rights – PDF ] In the current right wing driven political and economic climate, not only have workers and trade union rights been under attack, but basic working conditions for all sectors have deteriorated...

Women’s & LGBT Rights

RESOLUTION:  Still Fighting to Advance Women’s and Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Gay, Transgendered (LGBT) Rights Although our UE predecessors would have thought that by this time, the fates of working women around the world would have been much improved, we are still...

Support and Build the Southern Workers Assembly

RESOLUTION:  Support and Build the Southern Workers Assembly The deepening capitalist crisis across the US and the entire world continues to show its deep effects with 20 million or more people unemployed and many millions more underemployed.  This has lead to years...

Formation of a Retiree Committee

RESOLUTION:   Formation of a Retiree Committee:  A Wealth of Experience!  Many valuable, strong-fighting UE150 members have retired over the last decade yet have continued to make contributions to the union by helping to sign up new members, develop new leaders,...

Support U.S. Postal Workers

Resolution:    Support U.S. Postal Workers, Boycott Staples! No to Privatization! Whereas, the U.S. Postal Service has a no-bid, sweetheart deal with the big-box chain Staples to operate postal counters in more than 80 stores in 4 states; Whereas, the U.S. Postal...

Organizing the Unorganized

RESOLUTION:  Organizing the Unorganized, Build the Union  Organizing is the lifeblood of our union. It is how workers build power. It is how we resist. We organize to win justice in our workplaces, to petition our government for redress, and to amplify our voices to...

UE 150 President Address – 12/31/14

12/31/14 Dear NC Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150 Members, As the 2014 year comes to a close, our union’s elected board members have been reflecting on how this past year was unlike any other for North Carolina workers in the fight for dignity, respect,...

International Solidarity

RESOLUTION:  International Solidarity Corporate globalization makes international labor solidarity even more of a necessity. Downsizing and outsourcing in the private sector, privatization, deregulation, budget cuts in the public sector, and “free trade”...