1.1. If you're a UAW local, why don't you call yourselves the Local Writers Union?
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This article is from the Natl Writers Union FAQ, by Vicki Richman nwufaq@vicric.com with numerous contributions by others.
1.1. If you're a UAW local, why don't you call yourselves the Local Writers Union?
Beginning in 1979, _Nation_ magazine hosted national writers
conferences at different U.S. cities. Hoping to found a
writers' union, the participants at two of the conferences
-- in New York, sometimes called "the publishing capital of
the world," and in San Francisco -- set up organizing
committees in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington
D.C. and several other major U.S. centers.
In 1981, those committees sent delegates to the convention
that founded the NWU. Each committee with a delegate became
an NWU local. Later, writers in other geographical areas
organized their own locals. Writers remote from their
colleagues organized the At-Large Local, which is the only
NWU local that seeks to grow smaller. When At-Large members
find that their neighbors are also NWU members, they form
their own geographical local, with blessings and assistance
from the At-Large officers.
We now have nineteen locals. The number grows faster than we
can write FAQs.
Our members now number about 7200. They live in every part
of the U.S. and in 35 other countries. The international
members are either emigrated Americans or writers who have
contracts with U.S. publishers.
Therefore we are truly the *National* Writers Union.
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