People's World: Movement for Union Democracy Comes to UFCW

By Mark Gruenberg

LAS VEGAS—The movement for union democracy, campaigning for directly elected leaders who are much more accountable to members, has come to the United Food and Commercial Workers, the AFL-CIO’s third-largest union.

A growing group of workers, “Essential Workers for Democracy,” or ewd.org, is campaigning for reforms in the 1.2-million-member union. Other challenging groups have joined them. EWD put together a slate of challengers to current board members to achieve its goals.