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Breaking ground. From left, Eliot P. Laws, administrative trustee for the RACER trust; State Sen. John Cherry, Jr. (D-Flint Township); Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley, State Rep. Cynthia Neeley (D-Flint); Susan Harvey, senior vice president of Ashley Capital; Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Flint); Mott Foundation President and CEO Ridgway White; and Tyler
There was a systematic effort by the entrenched bureaucracy across the board to cling to power by suppressing the vote, which resulted in an election that had such low turnout that it was not meaningful in any fundamental democratic sense.
On September 1, Will Lehman sent the following letter to Neil Barofsky, the court-appointed monitor overseeing the UAW elections. Lehman is demanding the monitor investigate acts of intimidation by the UAW against Lehman’s campaign and against workers.
Workers from Michigan, Illinois and other states welcomed Will Lehman’s nomination and expressed support for his call for workers to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and establish rank-and-file power.