UDR #231 Now Available!
Teamsters Convention Report By David Levin | Democracy Has to Be Organized: Building Member Power in the IBEW Click Here to Subscribe to Union Democracy to Read the Full Issue
Book Restocked: I Just Got Elected – Now What? A New Union Officer’s Handbook Fourth Edition by Bill Barry!
By Bill Barry, 2007,2014,2020, 2023 55 pp. (Fourth Edition) A readable, rank-and-file oriented approach to what new local union officers should try to do if they believe in union democracy. Bill Barry calls for an organizing model of unionism and offers numerous practical suggestions. Also, this book covers the nuts and bolts of the legal […]
Still Fighting The Good Fight
It is essential that the American Labor Movement hold fast to values of solidarity and individual democratic rights because one is not possible (particularly in the context of organized labor) without the other. The trade union movement’s greatest achievement is the promise of extending the values of democracy and solidarity to the economic sphere, wherein […]
New York Labor History Association Reprints Union Democracy Review Article
The New York Labor History Association Reprinted Union Democracy Review‘s book review of Jane LaTour’s Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions. Read it here: Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions, by Jane LaTour (University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, 2026) Also available […]
New Buttons and Stickers In the AUD Store!
New Buttons and Stickers In the AUD Store! Union Democracy Buttons, Set of 5 – $6.00 Union Democracy Stickers, Sold in packs of 5, 10, and 25 – $5.00 – $15.00
UDR #230 Now Available!
AUD Files Amicus Brief | Strong Unions Need Strong Bones, Strong Muscles and a Strong Heart | A Packed Union Governance Summer!
New Book From Jane LaTour!
Jane LaTour joined the staff of the Association for Union Democracy in June 1989 and remained a strong ally and friend to AUD until her death in April of 2023. By 1989, when LaTour first came to be a part of AUD, she was already a well-seasoned veteran of rank-and-file union struggles. Apropos of […]
Union Reformers Challenge Fairness of Officer Elections in Federal Employee Union
by AUD Staff American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 62 represents federal employees based in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania metropolitan area and has recently held an election that has left some members questioning whether their democratic rights have been violated. The election in question was conducted last November (2025), with the incumbent leadership being challenged […]
New Book From Andy Piascik!
Longtime activist, writer, and former Association for Union Democracy staff member, Andy Piascik, recently coauthored Radical Connecticut: People’s History In The Constitution State with Steve Thornton. The book is a sustained look at the history of the social movements that fought to make Connecticut a more equitable place for workers, people of color, and other historically marginalized […]
A.U.D. Embarks on a New Outreach Program
As 2025 comes to a close (and the new year approaches), the Association for Union Democracy is looking to expand its horizons, investing its resources in new strategies to foster a democratic, member-responsive labor movement. All the while, AUD will perform the duties it has done heretofore but with a new vigor and sweeping […]