The New Directions Movement in the UAW is rooted in our union's founding tradition of democracy, accountability, and solidarity.

In recent years the almost total lack of accountability of the UAW leadership has thrown us into a tragic, costly, and false relationship with corporations who think nothing of exploiting our membership and our communities. We have traded away the only true means of gaining and exercising power in the workplace and community-our solidarity as workers. The need for new directions dictates the creation of a viable, rank and file directed alternative.

Our union must defend workers from corporate attacks. Only a strong democratic union can coordinate this struggle to regain past concessions, and prepare the membership to resist future exploitation.

We need a union controlled by an informed membership, not one under the domination of a one-party political caucus concerned primarily with its own political self-preservation.

We need a union leadership that understands that "an injury to one is an injury to all". We need leaders committed to develop strategies and work with like-minded allies to stand up against all assaults on people's basic rights, whether in the workplace or in the society. They must have the courage and the commitment to fight racist and sexist violence and discrimination.

The struggle to create a socially and economically just society can not be won without such a labor leadership. Through New Directions our union can once again be in the forefront of that struggle.


The NDM object and purpose is herein defined.

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