| | Hello, | | On the floor of the UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit, I was honored to be nominated as a candidate for UAW International President. I want to thank the two delegates who rose to nominate me, every delegate who pledged to do so, and every worker who has supported this campaign so far. | | My opponents represent the pro-corporate UAW apparatus—chief among them President Shawn Fain, who ran as a ”reformer“ in 2022 and has since sold workers out again and again, hailing the 2023 Big Three contracts as “historic” while leaving the hated tier system intact and standing aside as the same companies announced mass layoffs and plant closures. | | My campaign is directed against that apparatus. It is about transferring power from the bureaucracy that has dominated this union to the rank and file—to the workers on the shop floor. | | Why this fight is necessary is obvious to anyone in the plants, and the rebellion that makes it possible grows stronger every day. At Nexteer, workers rejected three contracts and authorized a strike by 86 percent, only to be ordered to stay on the line. At Dana, they voted down sellout agreements by overwhelming margins. At American Axle, they walked off the job and were ordered back. Behind it stands the experience of every worker: inflation gutting our wages while profits hit record highs, war expanding abroad and paid for by cuts at home, democratic rights under assault, and speed-up in the plants at a breaking point. | | We are fighting for what every worker needs—wages that outpace inflation, safe conditions, an end to the tier system, and secure pensions and health care for active workers and retirees alike—and against the oligarchy, the drive to dictatorship, and the war that runs through it all. The nomination is a step forward, but the hard work begins now. I call on every worker, UAW or not, to join us in building that movement: a network of committees, controlled by workers ourselves, that can break the grip of the apparatus and put our struggles back in our own hands. | | | | Carrying this fight forward takes resources. This campaign runs on nothing but the support of rank-and-file workers—no salary, no machine, no apparatus paying our bills. Give what you can today. | | | | $25, $50, $100—whatever you can donate is a direct answer to the apparatus’s millions. | | In solidarity, | | Will Lehman | Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW President | | William Lehman for UAW President | | | | | You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive email from the list Campaign updates from Will for UAW President
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