About
Will Lehman
A Mack Trucks worker running for UAW president in 2026. Not a bureaucrat. Not a capitalist politician. A worker.
A worker,
not a bureaucrat
Will Lehman is an autoworker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Unlike the career officials who run the UAW, Will works alongside the workers he seeks to represent.
He understands firsthand the challenges facing autoworkers: stagnant wages, brutal line speeds, the two-tier wage system, and a union leadership more interested in maintaining its own privileges than fighting for members.
The 2022
campaign
A rank-and-file worker challenged the entire UAW apparatus — and exposed the deep desire among autoworkers for genuine change.
4,777
Votes received
With virtually no budget
91%
Blocked from voting
Members denied their right
$0
From the apparatus
Entirely grassroots funded
1
Federal lawsuit won
Against the Sec. of Labor
Will's 2022 campaign was historic. Running as a genuine rank-and-file candidate against the entrenched bureaucracy, he called for abolishing the $200,000+ salaries of UAW executives and placing control of the union directly in the hands of workers through elected committees at every workplace.
The campaign exposed how the UAW apparatus systematically prevents members from organizing independently. The union refused to provide Will with a membership list — a basic democratic right — forcing his campaign to rely on social media and word of mouth.
Despite these obstacles, the response from workers was overwhelming. Will's message resonated because it spoke to what autoworkers already know: the UAW leadership doesn't represent them.
“We are the ones generating all the profit. Everyone else is just a parasite on that profit. We don't need them. They need us.”
— Will Lehman
2026: the fight continues
Will Lehman is running again — this time with proof that the bureaucracy cannot be reformed. The Fain administration has replicated the same corruption, self-dealing, and suppression of rank-and-file voices that defined its predecessors.
The 2026 campaign is not about electing a new president to sit atop the same rotten structure. It's about building a movement of rank-and-file workers who take power into their own hands through factory floor committees at every workplace.
The bureaucracy must be abolished. Workers must run their own union.
Join the fight for rank-and-file power
The 2026 UAW election is the chance to build something different — a union controlled by workers on the shop floor, not career bureaucrats in Detroit.
