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 Thursday afternoon.
Dave Green, who works for General Motors at its Bedford, Ind., won the race for Region 2B director of the UAW, which covers Ohio and Indiana. The Region 2B office is in Maumee.
Mr. Green beat incumbent Wayne Blanchard, who had served in the role since 2020, and was part of a slate of candidates running under the union’s current president, Ray Curry, known as the Curry Solidarity Team. […]
Mr. Green, former president of UAW Local 1112, ran as an independent reformer. Two other reform candidates running under a slate called UAW Members United were also set to take over regional leadership positions elsewhere in the country, the unofficial results showed.
“Their victories mark the first time in over 30 years that a candidate outside of the Administration Caucus — the party that has held nearly every position on the [UAW’s International Executive Board] for over seventy years — has been able to win an IEB position,” UAW Members United and an associated group, Unite All Workers for Democracy, said in a statement.