Updates

Region 6 Summer School 2024

You are warmly invited to Region 6 Summer School, June 20-23 at Cal State Los Angeles.  The conference will convene at 10am on Thursday, June 20 and 

March Newsletter: Worker-led organizing on the rise

From auto workers at Volkswagen to student workers at the University of Oregon and beyond, worker-led organizi

New Region 6 Staff Positions

In our first year as a re-formed Region 6, members pushed forward massive wins in organizing, bargaining, contract enforcement, and political action, and at the January 2024 Political Action &

2024 Region 6 Political Action & Leadership Conference

The 2024 Region 6 Political Action and Leadership Conference will be January 12-14 in Pico Rivera, California. Registration is due December 12. Open to all members & workers on Region 6 organizing drives! Contact your Local union if you are interested. 

Region 6 Big 3 Strike Center

UPDATE: As of Monday, October 30, UAW members have won historic Tentative Agreements (TAs) at all of the Big 3 auto companies! All three TAs include massive improvments since the beginning of the Stand Up Strike:

Take Action for Big 3 Bargaining

The contract campaign for UAW members at the Big 3 – Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis – is ramping up, with contracts expiring on September 14. Regardless of what sector you’re in, your action is needed to build the power to win record contracts auto workers deserve.

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Region 6 Education & Communication Conference

We are excited to announce our 2023 Region 6 Education and Communication Conference, October 7-8, in Pico Rivera, California. 

August Newsletter: Big 3 Bargaining, Region 6 Slack, EVs, & More!

Hot labor summer continues, with contract campaigns, political action, new organizing, solidarity actions, and more growing around the region. As with everything we do as a union and a labor movement, what we’re able to achieve is a direct function of how many members are actively participating to build power at every level. Keep reading to learn more about ongoing work and how you can plug in.

Hot Union Summer! June/July Newsletter

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June and July have set off a momentous Hot Union Summer in Region 6! Thanks to the active engagement of thousands of workers across the region, a renewed, fighting labor movement is on the rise. Across the Western States, union members have been taking mass action to demand – and win – the structural changes working people need and deserve.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS AT THE RAND CORP. VOTE TO UNIONIZE

Santa Monica, CA – Graduate student researchers at the Pardee Rand Graduate School (PRGS) have voted to form their union, PRGS Organizes-United Auto Workers (PRGSO-UAW). The vote, which was tallied today by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), was 51 to 26 — 66% of the 121 Graduate Student Researchers in the unit voted in favor of unionization.

Striking Postdocs & Researchers Reach Tentative Agreement

After six days of striking, University administration agrees to terms that secure massive gains for UW Research Scientists and Postdocs.