UAWD in Automotive News: UAW members send presidential race to runoff, oust 4 incumbent leaders

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 3, 2022 | Auto News, UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Michael Martinez writes for Automotive News: UAW members have voted out at least four high-ranking leaders in the wake of the union’s corruption scandal and sent the race for president to a runoff next month, according to unofficial results. […] [Shawn]...

UAWD in the Detroit News: UAW vote results: Change coming to top leadership ranks

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 2, 2022 | UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Jordyn Grzelewski writes for The Detroit News: Change is coming to the top ranks of the United Auto Workers’ leadership. That was one of the takeaways as vote tabulation in the historic first-ever direct election of the Detroit-based union’s International...

UAWD in the New York Times: United Auto Workers Appear to Rebuke Leaders in First Vote by Members

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 2, 2022 | UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Neal E. Boudette writes for the New York Times: The first United Auto Workers election open to all members appears to have produced a wave of opposition to the established leadership, signaling the prospect of sweeping changes for a union tarnished by a series of...

UAWD in In These Times: UAW Reformers Win a Historic Victory. What Comes Next?

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 2, 2022 | UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Jane Slaughter writes for In These Times: United Auto Workers (UAW) reformers seem set to make a historic change in the top leadership of their union, ending 70 years of one-party top-down rule. As mail-ballot votes were counted this week, it appeared very possible...

UAWD in the Toledo Blade: In UAW election, northwest Ohio gets new regional leader as other posts undecided

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 1, 2022 | UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Luke Ramseth writes for the Toledo Blade: United Auto Workers members in northwest Ohio will have a new regional leader while several other prominent international leadership posts for the powerful union remain undecided, early unofficial election results showed...

UAWD in the American Prospect: Revolution at the UAW

by UAWD Steering Committee | Dec 1, 2022 | UAW Members UNITED, UAWD in the News

Harold Meyerson writes for the American Prospect: Three incumbent regional directors have been ousted, one in the historic UAW bastion of Detroit, and another in New England (where the new regional director will be the former head of the UAW’s Harvard grad student...