“The more they make, the greedier they get.
It’s just plain corporate greed.”

David Haley,
Peterbilt worker locked out after 32 years on the job.

Cast your lot

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy.

Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., 1967

Downward spiral

A growing number of American citizens are joining the ranks of the poor and uninsured. (In 2001) an additional 1.3 million Americans were officially categorized as poor, while 1.4 million lost their health care coverage.

Source: Maritime newsletter

Be an organizer

Organizing a workplace starts with a contact within that workplace. By UAW members talking up their union to these people, they are helping their friends and relatives gain some of the benefits and security they themselves enjoy because of their union.

UAW Canadian Organizers
Source: Communicator 251, October 2002

Acts of kindness

What we as good union members and as good citizens try to do is volunteer, to support, to donate our efforts and our resources toward making our communities better. We do good deeds and hope that these kind acts will ripple outward, growing, turning into better things. We plant seeds.

Steve Heise
Source: Local 95 Union News, October 2002

Could be you

More than one in four workers in the United States earned poverty level wages in 2001.

Source: UAW Research Bulletin,
November-December 2002

New Year’s resolve

A union contract is worth fighting for … now more than ever. Organizing is the key to improving our community, redeveloping the local economy and regaining our clout.

John Goldstein
Source: AFL-CIO Labor Press