Union Hall - Members Only
Recent News Items
- 5/8/08 - Reject Orphan Works Bill
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPECIAL NEC ELECTION AND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- 4/16/08 - National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981 Opposes Amazon’s BookSurge Imposition on Print-On-Demand Market As “Monopolistic.”
- 4/7/08 - Federal Appeals Court Attacks Authors’ Constitutional Right to Copyright Protection
- 3/24/08 - NWU letter of support to American Axle workers
- Copyrights
- President Colby Sends Statement of NWU Solidarity to Writers Guild - West President Verrone
- Print on Demand Publishing Increasingly Attractive to Authors
- The Imperiled Future of Copyright
- Hire A Union Writer - Information
About the N.W.U.
The National Writers Union is the trade union for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets. With the combined strength of nearly 2,000 members in 16 chapters nationwide, and with the support of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the Union works to defend the rights and improve the economic and working conditions of all writers.
2008 Special election results
The results of the 2008 special election were sent out in an all-member e-mail on June 11 and are posted in the members only section of the website. Please enter the union hall to read the report.
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
- Minimum Wage Gets Second Boost After Decade of Roadblocks
- Obama Supports Pro-Worker Policies—and Union Members Support Obama
- Around Country, Union Members Keep Up the Pressure on McCain
- Pennsylvania Seniors Tell McCain: Don't Mess with Social Security
- Women Achieve Workplace Equality—Now as Likely to Lose Jobs as Men in Recession
- Bush Labor Dept. Secretly Writes Rule on Worker Exposure to Toxins
- Minnesota Activists Tell Coleman: No Bandage Fix for Health Care
- Letter Carriers Endorse Obama
- Rally Demands Free Elections, End of Zimbabwe Government Violence
- At Worksites and Doors, Union Members Get Out the Message
- TCU Endorses Obama for President
- U.S. Health Care Erodes, Costs Too Much, Covers Too Little, Excludes Too Many
- Netroots Nation: A Social Democratic Moment?
- San Jose City Workers Reach Accord, and More Bargaining News
- Netroots Nation: The Internet and the Health Care Movement