UAWD’S
Class Struggle
CONCON PROGRAM!

UAWD Program
for the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention

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The 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention is taking place from June 15-18, and UAWD has put forward a bold, class struggle program to fight the most pressing attacks on UAW members and the broader working class. The UAW leadership and staff bureaucracy that controls the Constitutional Convention is likely to block any program that escalates the struggle between workers and bosses beyond what can be controlled by leadership from the top.
As political and economic crises mount, our bosses are ramping up exploitation and imposing mass layoffs in the U.S., while politicians are launching wars to exploit the working class around the world, instead of funding our communities. As UAW members, we can’t wait and hope our leaders take action, we need to take collective control of our union, from the bottom up!
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Our Constitutional Convention Program contains eight constitutional amendments grounded in the principles of our UAWD Member Platform: rank-and-file militancy, workers’ democracy and workplace control, international working class solidarity, and political independence.
Our call is for UAW members to use these amendments to run local campaigns to pass the resolution most relevant to their circumstances. Whether it passes or fails, those local groups of rank-and-file members can begin to fight to make these visions a reality at their shops, beyond the confines of the Convention floor. If you’d like to join this fight, bring the UAW Constitutional Convention program to your local, and become a UAWD supporter today.
Read the full editorial by UAWD’s Steering Committee here.

Priority Amendments

1. Fight Layoffs With Work Sharing: Amendment to Article 19

Bosses use layoffs to burden the working class with the costs of economic downturns, a deliberate strategy to weaken and divide workers. The billionaire class lays off workers to protect profits, dividends and shareholder returns. This must be fought with work sharing practices, which spread available work across the entire bargaining unit, instead of throwing some workers out of a job.

Fight Layoffs

2. Abolish ICE and Fight State Attacks on Workers: Amendment to Articles 19, 23, 27, 50

The state repression of ICE/DHS is aimed at immigrants and workers alike, and is to be resisted through organized labor actions within all of UAW. The working class has the unique ability to confront this repression and we must organize and educate our workers and abolish ICE.

Abolish ICE

Other Class Struggle Amendments

3. Membership Vote on Presidential Endorsements: Amendment to Article 23

Currently, the UAW International Executive Board endorses candidates for US president without membership approval. This amendment would require that any endorsement for President of the United States be approved by a majority vote of UAW members, with the option to choose “No Endorsement.”

Presidential Endorsements

4. Worker Control Over Strike Authorization: Amendment to Article 50

The greatest strength workers have is withholding our labor from our bosses. The International Executive Board (IEB) currently holds veto power over strike authorization votes taken by UAW members, restricting democratic union decisions, stifling the development of mass participation and militant organizing activity.

Worker Control Over Strikes

5. Anti-Whipsaw Wage Floor and Strike Fund: Amendment to Articles 16, 19

Solidarity across borders is tantamount to building a militant union rooted in class-struggle. UAW has the means and resources to support Mexican labor struggles being carried out against the same employers of American workers with the creation of an Anti-Whipsaw Wage Floor and Strike Fund.

Anti-Whipsaw

6. End Complicity With Israeli Genocide and Imperialist Wars: Amendment to Articles 2, 7, 23, 50

We can stand against American imperialism by supporting the workers of the world and developing an anti-imperialist UAW membership: by divesting from Israel Bonds, by severing ties with the Zionist pseudo-labor entity “Histadrut”, withholding endorsement of any political candidate who supports funding for a genocide, and supporting workers in the arms industry who carry out labor actions opposed to American imperialism.

Anti-Genocide

7. Abolish Forced Overtime: Amendment to Article 19

Forced overtime robs workers of our waking lives and is a powerful mechanism of profit extraction and discipline and control. Workers have the power to fight against forced OT and define the productive process on our shop floors.

Abolish Forced OT

8. Preamble Committing to Class Struggle Unionism and the Fight Against Management

This amendment updates the Constitution’s preamble to reflect the militant class-struggle values on which the UAW was founded.

Class Struggle Preamble

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