Jenny Brown writes for Labor Notes:
Democratic reformers within their unions floored everyone—not least the sleepwalking incumbents. In the Auto Workers, the Unite All Workers for Democracy caucus, formed in 2019, has notched amazing wins in its short existence.
Last December UAWD activists won their one-member, one-vote campaign so that members could elect the top union officers. Then members used their new voting power to end the seven-decade tenure of the Administration Caucus, which was tainted by recent corruption scandals—not to mention the ongoing scandal of rolling over to concessions like two-tier contracts.
It’s not time for a victory lap yet—the presidency goes to a runoff in January.