FutureOfTheUnion.com
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Future of the Union www.futureoftheunion.com
Description
Future of the Union started in August 2004 soon after the United Auto Workers leaders bargained for two-tier wages for the rank-n-file members. Its sole purpose is not just to educate and inform rank-n-file auto workers about their union activities, but a means to build real solidarity at the bottom. There are thousands of workers across the country represented by the UAW that would not normally have access to the resources and communication that Future of the Union provides. We are not simply just a resource and news center though. We are a movement for serious and immediate change in our union. We often expose and take a hard line stance on the decisions that our leadership make. For this stance we have made a few enemies but, this does not divert our goals. We are determined to continue asking the questions that nobody asks. We are committed to exposing any and all corruption with our leadership when it is found. Our leadership council at UAW New Directions consists of many ex-uaw presidents, directors, and other officials who analyze the industry and the direction we are heading. . The base and foundation however of the Future of the Union movement is directed by a rank-n-file workers’ council out of Kokomo, Indiana. We work in unwavering conjunction and unity with both the Solidarity Now movement and the rebirth of the United Auto Workers New Directions Movement started by Victor Reuther brother of Walter Reuther.
This stance and determination has resulted in many UAW officials to resort to calling us anti-union. Those who call us radicals fail to understand the rapid decline of union membership in the United States is a direct effect of business unionism and corporate unions. They call us communists for denouncing the Democratic Party and the corrupt two party system in America. In fact we are not communists, but a movement calling for a real working-class party to be built. A labor party that represents the values and beliefs of working families in America. A true party of labor who understands the reality of the class struggle we face.
We stand for empowering the locals with paying only per capita to the international instead of operating by their rule from above.
