UAW Local 31 Benefits YOU!
UAW Local 31 proudly represents over 7000 active and retired workers, producing the award-winning Chevrolet Bolt EV at the General Motors Kansas City Fairfax Assembly Plant. We at Local 31 are dedicated to the UAW’s guiding principles that promote union activism for the purpose of rebuilding the American class by raising living standards for all American workers.
Local 31 recently celebrated it's 80th anniversary. It became a chartered Local of the UAW on March 4, 1942. Sign up for text message and email updates. Get all the latest news!
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2026 International Officer Election Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
2026 Standing Committees
UAW's Fellowship Program: An Opportunity to Become a Local Union Discussion Leader (LUDL)
Building Skills, Building Power at Local 2325
New Dates Announced for 2026 UAW Health & Safety Conference
Summer 2026 Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
Application Deadline for the 2026 Family Scholarship Program is Fast Approaching
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2026 International Officer Election Issue of Solidarity Magazine is Now Online!
In this issue: International Officer Election Candidates and slates. Get informed and get ready to cast your vote! -
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Working People Over PACs: UAW Ground Game Helps Power Primary Victories Statewide
After months of organizing on shop floors and in communities across Michigan, UAW members helped deliver a rebuke to billionaire-funded politics on Tuesday, powering victories for working-class champions across the state. Leading the ticket, UAW-endorsed Abdul El-Sayed defeated an obscene flood of outside spending to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate through a grassroots […] -
Joint Statement from President Shawn Fain and Vice President Rich Boyer: Fatality of UAW Stellantis Member at Center Line National Parts Depot
This morning, at Stellantis’ Mopar Division, Center Line National Parts facility in Center Line, MI, our UAW family lost longtime member James Brasher. Brasher was a thirty-plus-year UAW member and laborer working on a renovation project at the PDC when the incident occurred. A member of our union went to work today expecting to complete […] -
Statement on John Deere Contract Extension Offer by UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson, Director of the Agricultural Implement Department
John Deere cannot ask workers to surrender the benefit of a signed agreement while treating the request as anything less than bargaining. John Deere is asking to change a collective bargaining agreement that both sides already negotiated and signed. When a company comes back to rewrite the deal, it is asking for something. That is […]