The UAW has refused to send the monitor documents that refer to open threats or acts of criminal violence, including “cut throat,” “slit throat,” “punch,” “smack,” “knock out,” and, ominously, “kill.”
This victory vindicates the protracted and principled struggle waged by Lehman and thousands of his supporters to uphold the democratic rights of more than 1 million rank-and-file autoworkers, academic workers and retirees.
Autoworkers across the US are hailing the victory in court this week against the Department of Labor and the United Auto Workers bureaucracy over massive irregularities in the 2022 union elections.
The court decision characterizes the Biden administration’s pseudo-legal efforts to sidestep claims of voter suppression as “pedantic” and “inherently illogical and textually unsupported.”
In a newly released letter, UAW Vice President Rich Boyer hit back against his demotion by UAW President Shawn Fain, saying both leaders signed off on job cuts and other concessions demanded by Stellantis.
It has taken little more than a year for the “reform” pretensions of Fain & Co. to be definitively exposed as nothing more than hypocritical lies, aimed at giving a facelift to the UAW bureaucracy’s corporatist, antiworker policies.
The latest UAW monitor report marks a dramatic intensification of the crisis gripping the UAW bureaucracy, further eroding the pretensions of Fain’s administration to be carrying out “reforms,” rooting out corruption and winning major improvements for workers.
In a bombshell status report released yesterday, the court-appointed monitor revealed that it is conducting an investigation into ongoing and systemic corruption in the UAW, directly involving union President Shawn Fain.
On Tuesday, lawyers for the court-appointed monitor overseeing the 2022-23 UAW election filed an updated post-election status report which revealed, for the first time, that three national candidates and a wide range of UAW members filed protests warning the monitor that the election was unfair because masses of members never received ballots and could not vote.
In this video, Will Lehman and his attorney discuss the lawsuit Lehman filed Monday against the Biden administration’s Department of Labor over the fraudulent UAW election.
On Saturday, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president Will Lehman wrote to Thomas Murray, Detroit-Milwaukee District Director of the Department of Labor’s Office for Labor-Management Standards, objecting to the withholding of Curry’s election protest.
The DSA is working to provide a counterfeit “left” cover for the nationalist, pro-capitalist perspective which the UAW bureaucracy bases itself on.
Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.
UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman’s complaint to the Department of Labor, filed March 29, reviews the UAW monitor’s conflict of interest, which Lehman said is a ground to re-run the election in its own right.
The Monitor’s denial of Lehman's protest exemplifies the fraudulent character of the election and reveals the total contempt with which the UAW, the federal courts, and the Monitor view the democratic rights of the working class.
The conclusion of the second round of the UAW national officers’ election has proven definitively that the election was a fraud conducted with contempt for the rights of the rank-and-file membership.
After decades of collaborating with the corporations and successive governments in the systematic destruction of workers’ jobs, living standards and working conditions, the affluent upper-middle class executives who occupy the union’s misnamed “Solidarity House” and its satellites are viewed with contempt by the rank and file.
The real aim of this ongoing purge is to remove militant workers, lower labor costs, and terrify those remaining to accept worse conditions. This is a lesson in the reality of capitalism.
In recent months, dozens of workers have been fired in a systematic effort to purge the plant of anyone who has spoken up against corporate abuse in the past.
In this letter to the court-appointed Monitor, Lehman calls for a "full and transparent investigation into the circumstances behind this appointment... conducted publicly in the view of the rank and file."
