"A recent report from @uawregion6.bsky.social outlines a bold vision for how to expand clean energy industries in California using union labor. It’s an example of how unions can get serious about industrial policy and assert themselves in the 'abundance' debate." jacobin.com/2025/09/uaw-...

"We think that one of the best ways to have the collective political will to [address climate change quickly] is to have a strategic industrial policy that creates good middle class manufacturing jobs in sectors...like batteries, building decarbonization, heat pumps" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"The report presents a vision for how the state can...expand clean energy industries...[and] ensure that jobs created in this build-out become high-quality union careers. It’s precisely the kind of forward-thinking approach labor needs to take on industrial policy." jacobin.com/2025/09/uaw-...

Workers at Lucid Motors in Arizona are organizing a union with the UAW. Check out their website at lucid.uaw.org

Whether it's during wildfires or pandemics, false information puts our communities at risk. Sydney’s research tracks how rumors spread so we can respond faster and save lives. ⚠️🕸️ What’s your research story? 👩‍💻💡Share in comments or DM our account to be featured! #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters

Tracy studies DNA:RNA hybrid systems that could transform programmable medicine 🧬🔨 Cuts to training funding are limiting this work! What breakthroughs are you working on? DM or comment a pic and short quote to be highlighted! #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters

Kelsey studies how sugars on blood cancer cells can help them grow and resist treatment 🧪🩸 Her work could lead to brand new cancer therapies, but funding cuts put this work on the line. What research are you working towards? Comment or DM us to be featured ✏️ #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters

Trauma victims deserve better treatments than saltwater. 🙏❤️ Ethan's creating synthetic blood to save lives, but funding scarcities limit this research. What's one solution you're currently researching? 🥼 Comment or DM us a quote + photo to be featured. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters

Trump’s reckless cuts to research funding threaten lifesaving work on cancer, chronic disease, disaster relief & more. UAW members are taking action around an ambitious plan: establish a CA research foundation w/$23 billion in funding to keep this critical work alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Good news! The CA Legislature has approved my SB 787, which is designed to create more clean energy jobs in the state.

The folks at @uawregion6.bsky.social have a suite of policy proposals that would support US automakers by creating a domestic battery supply chain in California. static1.squarespace.com/static/660d8...

We’re live at UCLA’s Rolfe Courtyard for the Science Fair for Canceled Research, where researchers are showing the impact of Trump’s $600M cuts that suspended 800+ projects. From Alzheimer’s to HIV, lifesaving science is on the line—follow along as we call to #FundScience.

"Workers are not the problem. Exploitative corporations are. The UAW will always stand with all workers—immigrant and native-born alike—against unsafe corporations and militarized attacks on our workplaces." Read the full statement: uaw.org/uaw-issues-s...

By studying data from earlier HIV trials, Elena is improving treatments with insights into how the virus evolves ⚡🦠⚡ This work depends on reliable research funding!! What's your research story? Share in the comments or DM us to be featured. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters

Research and public service professionals across the University of California voted by 83% on Tuesday to form a new union (RPSP-UAW) that will represent 7,200 workers. @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social | @uawregion6.bsky.social dailybruin.com/2025/09/02/r...

Here’s why Kaia, a UCLA ASE, joined the CAT. The fight for a fair contract takes all of us–join the Contract Action Team today.

Really important measure to get CA on the road to clean energy supply chain and manufacturing jobs, across all regions. Let's get it passed to turn ambution to action.

UAW members in CA are fighting for SB 787 (@senmcnerney.bsky.social) to advance a future where clean energy and good jobs go hand in hand. California can lead the nation in building a green economy that works for everyone. @buffywicks.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social

A new report on Green Industrial Policy in California from @uawregion6.bsky.social is full of policy proposals that would support US automakers by creating a domestic battery supply chain. #battchat static1.squarespace.com/static/660d8...

Check out the new report from @uawregion6.bsky.social ⚡Organize, Industrialize, #Decarbonize! A #ProWorker, #GreenIndustrialPolicy for #California ⚡ lays out a strategic vision to create tens of thousands of green, #unionjobs and lower the cost of #cleanenergy. www.uawregion6.org/s/Reg6_white...

This week marks UAW's 90th anniversary! Check out the August Region 6 newsletter to learn how today's members are building on a legacy of bold worker action for social & economic justice -- and organizing to win a future that works for working people. @uaw.org www.uawregion6.org/newsletter/l...

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Write-up on the 🏀basketball team for @uaw.org Local 406 of Long Beach, CA, circa 1950s. Composed of Ford Motor employees and coached by the director of @uawregion6.bsky.social, Lew Michener. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Yesterday UAW members from across California met with legislators in Sacramento to urge support for bills that advance climate & worker justice: 🌍SB 787: Equitable clean energy & good jobs 🚆SB 63: Bay Area transit funding 🐟AB 1319: Protect endangered species + science jobs

Our CLFU leader Lorena Gonzalez hyping up UAW members from across CA in auto mfg, higher ed, civil service, and more! UAW Region 6 is in Sacramento today organizing for a Just Transition: good clean energy jobs, fully funded public transit, and protection of endangered species! #SB787 #SB63 #AB1319

Yesterday, ASEs had our 4th bargaining session. Here's what happened:

"Scientists and students at the University of Washington gathered at Kane Hall on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to federal research funding, warning the reductions could devastate scientific innovation." @uawregion6.bsky.social ow.ly/y13750WEBtH

So cool to meet everyone, learn about the precedents set by UAW and Region 6, and plan the next actions for Nevada workers!

Collage of mastheads from @uaw.org west coast local newspapers. From News-Letter, publication for @uawregion6.bsky.social. Sept 1955. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Huge thank you to @uawarchivist.bsky.social for joining Summer School to share powerful stories from UAW history and talk with members about building Local archives!

Loved the @uawregion6.bsky.social summer school. Our member organizing skills leveled up. Time to go be a terror for the boss and get some more big wins.

Got to meet my fellow @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social organizers in person at the @uawregion6.bsky.social Summer School this weekend. Much needed invigoration as we head to our union election next month

That's a wrap on Summer School 2025! In a moment where working people are facing escalating attacks from the billionaires and far right, UAW members are showing that a better world is possible – and building the solidarity, skills, and strategies to make it happen.

Region 6 Summer School 2025 has begun! Hundreds of UAW members from Fairbanks to San Diego will spend 4 days at Cal State LA strategizing and building skills to respond to Trump’s attacks on working people — and to build a future that actually works for workers.

The budget reconciliation bill passed by Republicans in Congress is an abomination for working people.

“Our work not only keeps the University of Alaska running and brings in millions in research investments, but also has lasting impacts on tens of thousands of students” -Laura Weingartner, science communicator at UAF and member of CAUSE-UAW. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/07/01/u...

“For the few Tax Cuts but not for you” Pamphlets mailed by the @uawregion6.bsky.social political action committee, 1956. From the @uaw.org Publications collection at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Over the weekend, over 200 UAW members from across the country gathered for the first-ever UAW Higher Ed Council meeting to strategize building power sector-wide — through new organizing, fending off Trump’s attacks on international workers, defending research & education funding, and more.

“These politically motivated attacks jeopardized medical and scientific progress and threatened the jobs of researchers studying climate change, renewable energy, cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of @uawregion9a.bsky.social

For months, UAW members have been organizing nonstop to save lifesaving research funding, and the pressure is working – bipartisan groups in both the Senate and House are now publicly calling for full continued funding of NIH research. 🧵

"I want the security of a long-term contract. I give USC my trust and hard work and I deserve that same commitment in return. Right now, without that commitment, my future feels uncertain. This is about respect….about being valued as part of the USC community.” NO MORE DELAYS. We Need a Union NOW!

Trump has sent in the military to prop up ICE raids in CA. This Saturday, 6/14, UC academic workers will join millions at protests across the country to rally against the administration's authoritarian actions. Find an action near you at nokings.org.

UAW Region 6 stands in unwavering solidarity with @chirla-org.bsky.social — a community pillar dedicated to uplifting immigrants, refugees, and working families. An injury to one is an injury to all. #StandWithCHIRLA

At the same time democracy & higher ed are under attack, USC admin is standing in the way of our democratic choice to form a union. Faculty & our allies are coming together to urge USC to do the right thing – RESPECT OUR VOICE AND OUR VOTE. Add your name at unitedfaculty-uaw.org/community-support

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

UAW Region 6 members are taking action in Los Angeles alongside the broader labor community in solidarity with @seiuca.bsky.social President David Huerta and immigrant workers impacted by ICE raids #FreeDavidEndRaids

Union members across the country are taking action TODAY - find a location near you 👇

Join us Monday, June 9 at 11am to rally for SEIU CA President David Huerta, injured and detained by ICE for exercising his First Amendment rights. We demand his release and freedom for all targeted by cruel, aggressive ICE raids. Free David Huerta! Free them all!