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Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org Profile picture
Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org
@WillforUAWpres
I'm running for president of the United Auto Workers union to put workers in power. I support the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees.
Sep 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
By announcing Thursday that the UAW will only call limited “stand up strikes” at a few plants even without a contract, UAW President Shawn Fain has admitted that the UAW bureaucracy is selling out the rank-and-file.

1/🧵 Image Fain is not calling on workers to “stand up.” He is demanding that we lie down and accept what the companies want. The isolation of the strike to only a handful of plants will ensure that it is as ineffective as possible.

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Jan 6, 2023 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
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In the first round of UAW officer elections, only 9 percent of members voted.

After a long silence, both factions of the UAW bureaucracy—represented by Ray Curry and Shawn Fain—say that rank-and-file workers are to blame because of our “apathy.”

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willforuawpresident.org/statements/cur… Curry said “there were 1.1 million ballots mailed to the convenience of someone’s home and they got a choice of being able to make a decision on that.” Those who did not vote “made a decision that they don’t want to participate.”

Quotes from Detroit Free Press, Dec 30

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Dec 30, 2022 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
🧵How the UAW bureaucracy suppressed the vote in the first-ever direct election of its national leadership, and why the election should be re-run.

A thread.

Thank you to the 100s of rank-and-file workers who submitted evidence to make this report possible.

Let's go...

1/ In Fall 2022 the United Auto Workers union held the first-ever direct elections of its national leadership, following a years-long corruption scandal that sent more than a dozen top UAW officials to prison for taking bribes from the company and stealing workers dues money.

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Aug 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
I did an online Q&A while on the road after a week of meeting w/ rank-and-file autoworkers at plants in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. I answered workers' questions & explained my campaign to abolish the UAW bureaucracy & put workers in power.

Posting some clips now. 🧵 1/ "It's about building rank-and-file committees at every workplace to decide democratically how to carry struggles out... It needs to be leadership in every plant, rank-and-file committees in every industry. This campaign isn't only about autoworkers, it's about every worker." 2/