Keith Brown

1 week ago | znetwork.org | Jane Slaughter |Keith Brown

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year electrician at Ford. “UAWD had become a caucus that is ‘resolutionary,’ and focused more on caucus discipline than on actually organizing workers. Meetings had become dreadful.

2 weeks ago | popularresistance.org | Jane Slaughter |Keith Brown |Labor Notes

Above photo: UAWD members were at the 2023 UAW Convention right after electing their slate to the international executive board. Jim West / jimwestphoto.com. Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year electrician at Ford.

2 weeks ago | labornotes.org | Jane Slaughter |Keith Brown

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus in the Auto Workers, voted to dissolve at its quarterly online membership meeting April 27. “It was a heartbreaking decision to come to,” said UAWD founder and chair Scott Houldieson, a 36-year electrician at Ford. “UAWD had become a caucus that is ‘resolutionary,’ and focused more on caucus discipline than on actually organizing workers. Meetings had become dreadful.

Dec 7, 2024 | scheerpost.com | Keith Brown

By Keith Brower Brown / Labor NotesTwenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of Asheville, North Carolina, as a “climate haven” from coastal storms, the area experienced catastrophic flooding. Upland Tennessee and North Carolina were the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene on September 27.

Dec 6, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Keith Brown |Labor Notes

Above photo: Restaurant workers threw themselves into cooking meals for thousands of displaced people with the local Mutual Aid Disaster Relief group. AFBU members helped workers apply for relief funds, while another crew drove water tubs around to help isolated seniors flush their toilets. AFBU. Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away.