The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It's Catching on Quickly

By Harry Kelber, Labor Educator
Posted on February 24, 2010, Printed on February 26, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/145797/

It's been only a month that a union for the unemployed has come into existence through an ingenious grassroots organizing campaign. In case you haven't heard about it, the union's name is "UR Union of the Unemployed" or its nickname, "UCubed," because of its unique method of organizing.

UCubed is the brain-child of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), whose leaders feel that the millions of unemployed workers need a union of their own to join in the struggle for massive jobs programs.