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United Auto Workers reform presidential candidate Shawn Fain is nearing victory with fewer than 600 challenged ballots remaining.

Behind the scenes there is a dirty fight over which faction of the UAW bureaucracy will dole out high paid positions and control the union’s $1.1 billion in assets.

"[M]urderous police brutality, our epidemic of gun violence, abortion rights, and a significant although limited upturn in grassroots labor energy.”

The vote for UAW president is headed for a photo finish due to a divided union. Until now, the union presidency had been filled by delegates to the union’s constitutional convention. Now the election is being run under the supervision of the court-appointed monitor financed by the UAW.

The vote count starts Wednesday in a historic run-off election for the United Auto Workers presidency and other offices.

Today's Water Cooler

In the wake of a corruption scandal, the autoworkers' union leadership faces the first contested election in over three-quarters of a century. But the old guard won't go without a fight.

The contract is aimed at setting a precedent for painful new concessions, particularly in health care benefits, throughout the auto and heavy equipment industries.

Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from climate change? Was it the fact that employers are still begging for more workers? Whatever it was, workers were ready to throw down this year. In the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more money in our paychecks, and more time for our lives outside of work. We organized; we even exercised our strike muscles. And

Workers across many industries defied conventional organizing wisdom in order to gain ground.