The election vendor concluded the first day of referendum vote tabulation at midnight on November 30, 2021. With roughly 18% of the total ballots counted, 69.6% of voters supported a move to the direct election method of electing UAW International Executive Board…
The UAW’s international referendum on direct elections ends today. Ballots were mailed to members of the United Auto Workers in October giving them the option to change the way their leaders are elected. The union’s International Executive Board has always been…
The deadline for when United Auto Workers members can submit their vote on whether to implement direct elections of international union leaders or maintain the current delegate-based system is on Monday. The election brought on by a corruption scandal within the UAW…
Convention delegates are selected by UAW members, but the rules and procedures used throughout the convention are controlled by the so-called “Administrative Caucus,” which is an extension of the executive board. Critics of the system argue the conventions have…
United Auto Workers members this month are casting ballots in a historic referendum that could change the union’s decades-old system for electing leaders — and they’re doing so as workers across the country push for better wages, benefits and working…
Let’s talk about the dreaded “dark money” that some claim will infest every aspect of our union if we vote to move to direct elections of our International Executive Board officers. The basic theory behind this criticism is that if we have direct…
