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The
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Rank-and-File Union
A Proud Record
 UE
was the first union to win paid vacations and holidays, seniority rights and other rights
on the job for hundreds of thousands of workers in basic industry. UE stresses strong
workplace organization and militant shop floor action over legal maneuvering. In the
1980s, UE was the first union to resist the employers' drive for concessions and the first
union to sound a warning about "quality circles" and other phoney
"labor-management" cooperation schemes.
UE gained an early reputation as a fighter for the rights of
women workers and as an opponent of racial discrimination. In the 1950s, UE mounted public
campaigns to force major electrical manufacturing corporations to agree to
non-discrimination clauses. UE was among the first to organize undocumented workers and
speak out on behalf of immigrants. As an early critic of the Vietnam
War, the union campaigned for redirecting the federal budget toward job-creating, socially-useful production.
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