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The reform measure allows members to vote for members of the union’s board directly, rather than through a delegate.

About 1 million United Auto Workers can now decide if they want to directly elect their leadership, which is currently chosen by union delegates.

Over 20 rank-and-file autoworkers spoke on a webcast Oct. 7, challenging the corruption, lack of union democracy and the “partnership” with corporations perpetuated for decades by the International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers. The multinational, multigendered and multigenerational group of unionists advocated for direct elections of International officers…

The UAW monitor overseeing the referendum election has set a deadline of Nov. 12 for ballots to be returned, but the union is seeking changes.

US District Court Judge Paul Borman sentenced former United Auto Workers president Gary Jones to 28 months in prison for embezzling up to $1.5 million in union funds to finance golf trips, private villas, and lavish meals for top UAW executives.

The UAW faces an internal tug-of-war between union members demanding reform of what they see as a corrupt system and the union’s old guard defending it.

Hundreds of members are backing a campaign to have the UAW hold direct elections for union president, a move they believe will bring more inspiring union leaders, ones they say will fight harder for the union’s rank-and-file. In recent decades, the UAW has been run by a single party or caucus, with each union president having a powerful say in choosing his successor, and that, dissidents say, led to internal rot – and the wide-ranging scandal in which top UAW officials embezzled more ...

The 2,900 members of UAW Local 2069 hit the bricks April 17, shutting down the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world. But 13 days later many were dismayed when the union sent them back to work and said they would be told later what had been bargained. Over the weekend, workers voted by 91 percent to reject the tentative agreement. Photo: DelegateTara, Twitter. Update: On May 20 union officials brought back a second tentative agreement. Workers are organizing to again vote no a...

Members Challenge Terms of UAW Consent Decree in Court Splinter group pushing for change to end corruption. Some UAW members want changes to the consent decree negotiated between UAW President Rory Gamble, left, and former U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider. A group within the United Auto Workers challenged the union’s established leadership, asking a federal judge for a larger voice in reforming the UAW. One of the key requests in the petition by the United All Workers for Democracy or UAWD is ...

From electric vehicles to corruption — UAW faces huge challenges By Martha Grevatt posted on February 16, 2021 General Motors CEO Mary Barra raised more than a few eyebrows Jan. 28, when she announced GM would have an all-electric product line by 2035. This planned phaseout of fossil fuel-burning vehicles represents a serious departure from four years ago, when GM joined the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in calling on President-elect Donald Trump to scale back President Barack Obama�...