I am filing a formal protest to the UAW Monitor over the fundamental unfairness of the UAW election. In the first round of voting, less than 10 percent of the 1.1 million active and retired UAW members who were eligible to vote cast ballots. This was not due to apathy but the deliberate policy of the UAW apparatus to suppress the vote and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of UAW members.
Large numbers of workers did not even know any election was taking place. The UAW did not send out notices to inform them. Many workers never received a ballot despite calls to local union offices and the UAW Monitor.
No election in which 90 percent of the membership were excluded can be legitimate. Neither Ray Curry nor Shaw Fain even received 4 percent of the votes of the UAW membership. That is why I am asking the UAW Monitor not to certify the results of this sham election. Instead, I am calling on the monitor to include all five UAW presidential candidates in the next round of voting and to compel the union to inform all members of the new voting dates. Only in this way can every UAW member have the right to meaningful vote in a free and fair election.
Fraternally,
Will Lehman | 
