UE Local 228 represents the workers at the National Visa Center in Portsmouth, NH. We organized with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) in 2016 as part of UE’s growing base of Service Contract Act (SCA) locals.

Since then, we’ve fought for—and won—average raises of nearly 7% per year, along with major improvements to our Health & Welfare benefits. In 2022, we partnered with our sister local, UE 728 at the Kentucky Consular Center, to negotiate more affordable health plans—designed by us, for us.

Our union is run by the people who work here. Stewards are from the membership and serve as the front line in defending our rights. As a rank-and-file union, UE puts control in the hands of the members—not a staffer or a lawyer, but you and your coworkers.

This is our union. We build it. We run it. We fight together.