December 19 2025
Ipswich, Massachusetts

UE Local 279 members unanimously ratified a new four-year contract with Trillium Valves in mid-November that includes a 16 percent raise over the life of the contract.

Members of UE Local 234 who manufacture precision scales in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom ratified a strong contract in early November after six weeks of intense bargaining. The local secured four percent wage increases in the first and second year of the contract and a 3.5 percent raise in the third year. The members also won on-call, second shift, and lead person pay increases.

November 20, 2025

On November 20, 1975, 730 workers at the General Electric turbine plant just outside Charleston, South Carolina voted to join UE, forming Local 1202. It was the second large electrical manufacturing plant in the South to organize with UE in the 1970s, following the Tampa Westinghouse plant, where workers formed UE Local 1201 in 1972.

On November 3, 2025, following two months of coordinated bargaining, members of UE Locals 228 and 728 ratified new 11-month agreements. The locals collectively represent more than 850 workers who process visa petitions and provide petitioner support at the Department of State’s National Visa Center in Portsmouth, NH and the Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, KY, respectively. They are sister locations whose members are employed by federal contractor LDRM under the State Department’s Visa Support Services contract.

October 31 2025

Despite the announcement of a ceasefire earlier this month, the conditions that sparked global outrage remain unchanged — Palestinians are still being killed, their land is still being stolen, and the apartheid regime that Israel has imposed on Palestinians for decades remains intact. The United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) was one of the first unions to call for a ceasefire, on October 20, 2023. Now, as UE leaders, we believe more than ever that the labor movement still has a duty, not only to speak out, but to do the work necessary to ending the injustice against Palestinians so long as it continues to be funded by U.S. workers’ taxes and supported by our government.

October 28, 2025
Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic Library workers, members of amalgamated UE Local 155, won four percent wage increases in each year of their new three-year contract. This was the first multi-year contract in many years; for some time, the local has been negotiating one-year extensions due to issues with the library’s finances. In addition to the wage increases, which are higher than they have historically received, the workers won an extra early closure day (with pay) and increased the travel reimbursements.