Critics say the current system allows for a long-entrenched leadership group to avoid accountability. A dissident group, Unite All Workers for Democracy, has been among the most vocal supporters of changing the election process.
Gamble said the union will educate members on both options, but he disagrees with the premise that there is something improper about the current system.
“How you elect someone does not define whether they’re going to be corrupt or not. Corruption begins in the heart,” Gamble said. “To say how we elect our leadership involves corruption in any way is just not true. It is simply a political reach and something being perpetrated by people who see an opportunity here from a very bad situation.
Gamble talks upcoming election, anti-corruption efforts, says UAW ‘very much alive’
