Welcome to the home page of UAW Local 6888, representing over 300 Office Professionals at Central Michigan University.  CMU's Office Professionals first organized as an independent union in 1968.  In 1988, we joined the UAW.  The rest has been history in the making!  Click here to view a timeline of Local 6888.

Local 6888 is committed to securing economic and social justice for our members, as outlined in the principals of the International UAW. Our goal is to uphold the American standard of living according to the needs of our members and to strive for dignity in the workplace.

This site is dedicated to bringing accurate and up to the minute information to our membership.

"Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions.  One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts."  

--Molly Ivins, newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author (1944-2007)

The following song is the "anthem" of the UAW.  We sing it at every UAW International function.  It has been included on this page to bring attention to the fact that it takes more than one or two people to make a union strong.  It takes more than your bargaining team during contract negotiations to keep the wages and benefits we have won in years past.    

When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,

There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun.

Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?

But the union makes us strong.

(CHORUS) Solidarity forever, solidarity forever,

Solidarity forever — For the union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,

But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel would turn;

We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn,

That the union makes us strong.

(CHORUS) Solidarity forever, solidarity forever,

Solidarity forever — For the union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold;

Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand fold,

We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old,

For the union makes us strong.

(CHORUS) Solidarity forever, solidarity forever,

Solidarity forever — For the union makes us strong.

Union - an alliance formed by the joining of many people for a common purpose.