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Have you moved? Did you get a new e-mail? Have you gotten a new phone number? Did you change your name? If you have new contact information it is important to keep it current with our office. Without that new information we can’t contact you about disciplines, grievances that affect groups of employees, contract or policy updates, notify you of rallies and union events. Without confirmed … Continue reading

January 13 Information Session on New Postdoc Contract

Our contract expires on March 31, 2015.  Join your fellow postdoctoral researchers to help bargain a new contract! Your union, the Postdoctoral Researcher Organization/UAW Local 2322, is preparing to bargain a second contract for when our current agreement expires at the end of March. In the last contract, we won paid time off, salary minimums, subsidized childcare, and groundbreaking protections for international postdocs! A strong … Continue reading

Volkswagen

For immediate release:  December 8, 2014 UAW RESPONDS TO NEW DEVELOPMENT AT VOLKSWAGEN CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Gary Casteel, secretary-treasurer of the UAW, who heads the International Union’s Transnational Department, today released the following statement regarding Volkswagen’s verification of the membership of UAW Local 42: “We appreciate Volkswagen’s timely response in verifying UAW Local 42’s substantial membership level, which exceeds a majority of workers at the … Continue reading