# Will Lehman for UAW President 2026

> Will Lehman is a Mack Trucks worker and socialist running for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the 2026 election. His campaign seeks to abolish the UAW bureaucracy and place power and decision-making in the hands of rank-and-file workers, organized in rank-and-file committees.

The campaign website publishes statements on workers' struggles, workplace safety, layoffs, union corruption, international solidarity, and rank-and-file organizing. It also provides information on the 2026 UAW election process, how to get involved, and how to donate.

Key positions:

- Abolish the UAW bureaucracy — the apparatus that suppresses workers' struggles and enforces the interests of the corporations
- Build rank-and-file committees at every workplace, controlled democratically by workers themselves
- Unite autoworkers internationally with workers in every industry against layoffs, wage cuts, and unsafe conditions
- Fight for workers' independent political interests against both corporate parties

## About

- [About Will Lehman](https://willforuawpresident.org/about): Will Lehman is a Mack Trucks worker and socialist running for UAW president to abolish the bureaucracy and put power in the hands of rank-and-file workers.

## Key Pages

- [2026 Campaign Statement](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/2026-campaign-statement): Will Lehman's announcement of his 2026 campaign for UAW president — why he is running, what the campaign stands for, and how workers can get involved.
- [Get Involved](https://willforuawpresident.org/get-involved): Sign up to organize at your workplace, become a convention delegate, distribute materials, or volunteer for the campaign.
- [2026 UAW Elections](https://willforuawpresident.org/uaw-elections): Information on the 2026 UAW election — how to vote, how to run as a delegate, and why this election matters.
- [Donate](https://willforuawpresident.org/donate): Contribute to the campaign. Every dollar goes directly to building rank-and-file power.
- [Statements Archive](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements): All campaign statements on workers' struggles, workplace issues, and the fight against the union bureaucracy.

## Statements

- [Deere workers: The two-year contract extension is a trap. Build rank-and-file committees now to stop another sellout by the UAW apparatus](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/deere-contract-extension-trap): 2026-07-12 — John Deere has proposed a two-year contract extension for 10,000 UAW members in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas—a preemptive move to lock in below-inflation raises and the 2021 sellout before workers can organize. Deere workers must reject it outright and rebuild the Deere Workers Rank-and-File Committee to lead the fight themselves.
- [Dana workers, locked in contract battle, give warm welcome to Will Lehman campaign team](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/dana-workers-welcome-campaign-team): 2026-07-10 — Workers at the afternoon shift change at the Warren, Michigan Dana plant responded enthusiastically to the call by Will Lehman’s campaign to build a rank-and-file movement in opposition to the UAW apparatus which is actively betraying their struggle.
- [Dangerous heat wave shows the need for workers’ control over safety](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/heat-wave-workers-control-safety): 2026-07-02 — The ongoing heat wave is a workplace emergency, not just a weather event. Workers need the power to stop the line and halt production when heat conditions turn dangerous — not wait on a union bureaucracy that stands with management.
- [The fight at Nexteer is far from over! Expand your rank-and-file committee!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nexteer-fight-far-from-over): 2026-06-28 — I have been following your fight from the beginning. A contract rammed through by fraudulent methods — including the firing of Antwiane Sanders for opposing it — is not legitimate. Guard and expand your rank-and-file committee. The fight is yours to win.
- [UAW's shotgun vote at Nexteer: Something is rotten in Saginaw](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-shotgun-vote-nexteer): 2026-06-24 — The ratification vote being organized inside the Nexteer factory is not a legitimate vote — it is a shotgun affair designed to silence opposition to a pro-company deal. UAW officials at every level have acted not as workers' representatives but as their enemies.
- [After the UAW convention: The work ahead](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/on-my-nomination-uaw-constitutional-convention): 2026-06-18 — Yesterday, on the floor of the UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit, I was honored to be nominated as a candidate for UAW International President. I call on every worker — UAW or not — to join us in building a rank-and-file movement to break the grip of the apparatus.
- [The issue posed at the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention: The apparatus vs. the rank-and-file](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/2026-convention-apparatus-vs-rank-and-file): 2026-06-17 — The events of the first two days of the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention have made clear why my nomination is necessary. This is a convention of the bureaucracy, by the bureaucracy, and for the bureaucracy.
- [A Letter to Delegates and All UAW Members on the Eve of the Constitutional Convention](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/letter-to-delegates): 2026-06-09T12:00:00Z — I am running for UAW President and asking for your support. My aim is not to swap one official for another — it is to organize a rebellion against the dictatorship of the UAW apparatus and restore power where it belongs: the rank and file on the shop floor.
- [American Axle workers: Take this fight into your own hands! Unite with Nexteer and other parts workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/parts-workers-unite): 2026-06-01 — I send my unconditional solidarity to the 1,000 members of UAW Local 2093 who have walked out of American Axle in Three Rivers, Michigan. I urge you to form a rank-and-file strike committee, unite with Nexteer and other parts workers, and fight to take back everything the UAW bureaucracy has surrendered over the past four decades.
- [Nexteer workers: Don’t accept any more delays. The time for your strike is now.](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nexteer-strike-vote): 2026-05-21 — Nexteer workers voted 86 percent to authorize a strike, including 89 percent of production workers. Now the UAW International is asking for 14 more days of delay. Form a rank-and-file committee, demand $1,000 a week in strike pay, and strike now.
- [Support the Nexteer auto parts workers rebellion against UAW sellout contracts!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nexteer-workers-rebellion-uaw): 2026-05-15 — On Friday, 1,300 Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan voted down a second UAW sellout agreement by 73 percent. I welcome this courageous vote and call on all UAW members to support their fight and build a rank-and-file committee.
- [For a real fight against outsourcing and job cutting at SHAP! Build rank-and-file committees to lead the battle](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/stop-outsourcing-at-shap): 2026-05-05 — UAW Local 1700 has called a strike vote May 7–8 at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP). The fight against outsourcing and job cuts will go nowhere if left in the hands of the UAW bureaucracy. Workers must build rank-and-file committees to lead the battle themselves.
- [Defend the right to strike: Oppose the UAW bureaucracy’s sabotage of Columbia and Harvard academic workers’ struggles](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/defend-right-to-strike): 2026-04-30 — The UAW International has defied two strike votes at Columbia and blocked 4,000 Harvard non-tenure track faculty from joining the strike. The bureaucracy must be abolished by a rank-and-file movement that builds independent committees on every campus and places power directly in the hands of workers.
- [Against the US-Israeli imperialist war on Iran](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-iran-war-resolution): 2026-04-25 — On April 25, I introduced this resolution against the US-Israeli war on Iran at a meeting of UAW Local 677. The local apparatus voted it down 7–1, with mine the only vote in favor. I urge workers to read, print, and distribute it widely, and to organize discussion and action independent of the bureaucracy.
- [No to Trump’s “Arsenal of Genocide”! Autoworkers must oppose the Pentagon’s war production drive](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/arsenal-of-genocide): 2026-04-24 — I call on autoworkers to oppose the Pentagon’s push to enlist GM and Ford in an accelerated arms buildup. The UAW bureaucracy is fully backing the war production drive—workers must build rank-and-file committees to organize independently against the war economy.
- [Mobilize every UAW member behind the Harvard workers strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/mobilize-uaw-harvard-strike): 2026-04-21 — I welcome and fully support the walkout by more than 4,000 Harvard graduate workers. Every UAW member should be mobilized behind their strike—and rank-and-file committees, independent of the bureaucracy, are needed to expand it into a broader movement against war, repression and austerity.
- [Hands off Turkish class war prisoner Başaran Aksu!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/hands-off-basaran-aksu): 2026-04-15 — I condemn the arrest of Turkish independent union leader Başaran Aksu, Organizing Coordinator of Umut-Sen. His real “crime” was standing on the front lines of wildcat strikes by miners, warehouse, and textile workers. An injury to one is an injury to all.
- [UAW President Shawn Fain’s “Stand Up Slate”: A bureaucratic merger of pro-company hacks](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/fain-stand-up-slate): 2026-04-14 — I urge workers to reject Shawn Fain’s new Stand Up Slate as a reshuffling of the same bureaucracy, not a break from it. Four of its thirteen candidates ran on Ray Curry’s Solidarity Team sellout slate in 2022–23. The bureaucracy cannot be reformed—it must be abolished.
- [Harvard graduate workers: Your strike points the way forward—but beware the UAW apparatus](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/harvard-graduate-workers-strike): 2026-04-12 — I fully support the Harvard graduate workers strike. But victory requires forming rank-and-file committees independent of the UAW apparatus, which has a documented history of suppressing strikes and selling out workers.
- [Oppose the deportation of UAW member Kennedy Orwa!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/oppose-deportation-of-uaw-member-orwa): 2026-04-12 — I condemn the deportation of University of Washington graduate student and UAW member Kennedy Orwa and his son, and call on UAW members to mobilize against this assault on immigrant workers and democratic rights.
- [Vote Will Lehman and Joe David for delegates at UAW 677 at Mack Trucks on April 9! Power to the rank and file!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-677-delegate-voting): 2026-04-07 — Joe David and I are standing as delegates for UAW Local 677 as part of an insurgent slate throughout the UAW. We are running not to get cushy jobs inside the apparatus, but to abolish it and transfer power to the rank and file.
- [One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: The cover-up must end now!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ronald-adams-one-year): 2026-04-06 — Ronald Adams Sr. was killed one year ago because safety systems had been systematically dismantled. MIOSHA has still not released its investigation. Workers must build rank-and-file safety committees and assert control over safety and production themselves.
- [Nexteer workers: Prepare for a real fight after defeating the UAW’s sellout contract!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nexteer-prepare-real-fight): 2026-04-03 — Your 96 percent “no” vote is a powerful and historic act. But a “no” vote is only the beginning. Form a Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee and prepare for strike action organized by workers themselves.
- [Fight the layoffs at GM’s Factory Zero and throughout the auto industry](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/gm-factory-zero-layoffs): 2026-04-01 — GM has again idled Factory Zero in Detroit, laying off 1,300 workers. Workers should build rank-and-file committees to enforce a zero-layoff policy. The UAW bureaucracy’s silence is not passivity—it is complicity.
- [Nexteer workers: Vote “NO” on sellout agreement! Organize the rank and file to oversee balloting and prepare a strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nexteer-saginaw-vote-no): 2026-03-30 — I urge Nexteer workers in Saginaw to reject the four-year tentative agreement containing sweeping concessions. Workers must organize rank-and-file oversight of the ballot and prepare for strike action.
- [Support the New York University academic workers strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nyu-academic-workers-strike): 2026-03-23 — 950 NYU full-time contract faculty have walked out on strike. I fully support your strike — your fight is part of the developing offensive of the working class against austerity, dictatorship and war.
- [Free Mehmet Türkmen! The arrest of an independent union leader is an attack on the entire working class](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/free-mehmet-turkmen): 2026-03-19 — I condemn the arrest of Mehmet Türkmen, general secretary of BİRTEK-SEN, and demand his immediate release. Workers must reach out across borders and build networks of solidarity capable of defending any worker facing repression.
- [For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Ford worker Gregory Knopf!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/gregory-knopf-ford-sharonville): 2026-03-18 — Gregory Knopf was killed at Ford’s Sharonville Transmission Plant when a press machine activated during maintenance. My campaign calls for rank-and-file safety committees with real authority to halt unsafe operations and conduct independent investigations.
- [UAW bureaucracy betrays Columbia graduate student workers: Rank and file must fight back](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/columbia-graduate-workers): 2026-03-18 — Columbia graduate and undergraduate workers voted 91.5 percent to authorize a strike, but the UAW apparatus moved immediately to block it. I call on workers to form independent rank-and-file committees and take control of their own struggle.
- [Support the strike of JBS meatpacking workers in Colorado!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/jbs-meatpacking-workers-colorado): 2026-03-15 — I call on autoworkers across the country to support the JBS workers in Greeley, Colorado. Workers must build rank-and-file committees to expand this struggle and enforce democratic oversight over negotiations.
- [Oppose Trump’s union-busting attack on National Institutes of Health researchers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/nih-union-busting): 2026-03-12 — I call on all UAW members and workers to rally to the defense of NIH workers and build rank-and-file committees to prepare collective action, including a general strike to defend the jobs and rights of all workers.
- [University of California academic workers: Enforce your strike mandate!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uc-workers-enforce-strike-mandate): 2026-03-11 — UC academic workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action, but the UAW bureaucracy has ignored this mandate. I urge workers on every campus to organize rank-and-file committees to enforce the will of the membership.
- [11 months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: Workers cannot forgive and forget what happened to our brother](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ronald-adams-11-months): 2026-03-08 — Eleven months after Ronald Adams Sr. was crushed to death at Stellantis Dundee, his family still has no answers. I urge workers to demand the immediate release of the MIOSHA investigation and hold those responsible accountable.
- [UAW rank and file must support Local 2192 strikers and fight the assault on social services!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/local-2192-jfs-strike): 2026-03-06 — More than 140 UAW Local 2192 caseworkers and social service workers in Lorain County, Ohio are on strike against poverty wages and chronic understaffing. Their fight is inseparable from the defense of the social programs that millions of workers depend on.
- [No profit sharing: A slap in the face to Stellantis workers who produced billions](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/stellantis-profit-sharing): 2026-02-27 — The elimination of profit-sharing checks means bills unpaid, homes at risk, and plans postponed. What workers need is not profit sharing but workers’ power to wrest back the concessions stolen from us.
- [For an insurgent slate of rank-and-file worker delegates to the UAW convention!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-delegates-letter): 2026-02-26 — I am urging workers to form an insurgent slate of rank-and-file delegates and to demand a real, democratic delegate process in every local ahead of the UAW Constitutional Convention in June.
- [Solidarity with the striking coal miners at Polyak Mining in İzmir, Turkey!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/turkey-coal-miners-strike): 2026-02-24 — I send my full solidarity to the 1,243 coal miners at Polyak Mining in İzmir who have halted production in a wildcat strike to demand unpaid wages, safety protections and contractual rights.
- [Hands off the Quakertown high school students!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/quakertown-students): 2026-02-22 — I condemn the vicious assault by Quakertown police against high school students who walked out to oppose ICE raids terrorizing immigrant families.
- [Support the Mexican auto parts workers’ fight against mass layoffs!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/mexico-auto-parts-02-19): 2026-02-19 — Workers have occupied factories after the shutdown of six First Brands maquiladora plants in northern Mexico and the firing of more than 4,000 workers.
- [University of California grad students: Take the struggle out of the hands of the UAW bureaucracy!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uc-grad-students-strike-vote): 2026-02-17 — The overwhelming strike-authorization vote by 48,000 University of California academic workers is a powerful expression of class anger.
- [Detroit workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight ICE terror!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/detroit-ice-raids): 2026-02-16 — I condemn the deployment of ICE agents in Detroit and surrounding communities and call on workers to prepare collective action to defend our immigrant brothers and demand the removal of ICE from Detroit and every city.
- [Why I’m running for UAW President in 2026](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/2026-campaign-statement): 2026-07-12 — The purpose of this campaign is to end the dictatorship of the Solidarity House bureaucracy, re-establish the needs of the rank and file as the purpose of the union, and mobilize the full industrial power of the membership to defend democratic rights.
- [US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Strikes Down Department of Labor Dismissal of Challenge to 2022 UAW Election, Orders Investigation Into Voter Suppression Claims](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/06-25-court-ruling): 2024-06-25 — Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks and socialist candidate for UAW president, issued the following statement in response to today’s decision inLehman v. Department of Labor, 2:23-cv-11585. The decision held that the denial of Lehman’s
- [Unite the rank-and-file for an all-out strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/unite-rank-file): 2023-09-13 — Join the online meeting of the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee Network Thursday to discuss a strategy to fight the UAW bureaucracy’s betrayal.Register here to attend.
- [What autoworkers need to win the 2023 Big Three contract battle](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/autoworkers-win): 2023-07-10 — To discuss joining the autoworkers rank-and-file committee network,fill out the form here. Sign up for text message updates on the Big Three contract fight by texting AUTO to (866) 847-1086. Statement reposted with permission from the...
- [Rank-and-file UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman sues Biden administration Department of Labor demanding re-run of UAW election](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/dol-suit): 2023-07-03 — Detroit, MI—On Monday, July 3, rank-and-file autoworker Will Lehman filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan challenging the Department of Labor's refusal to act on his complaint of widespread voter suppressio
- [A call to action to rank-and-file autoworkers: Mobilize support for the Clarios strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/clarios-iwa): 2023-05-18 — Statement of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) May 18, 2023
- [The Clarios workers have set a powerful example, but they cannot win this strike alone](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/clarios): 2023-05-10 — By Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate in the 2022 UAW presidential elections
- [UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman files complaint with Department of Labor over massive disenfranchisement in UAW election, demands monitor be removed due to conflict of interest](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/dol-uaw-complaint): 2023-03-29 — On Wednesday, March 29, as the UAW bargaining convention meets in Detroit, Will Lehman filed a complaint with the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) demanding the UAW election be re-run with the names of all candidates 
- [Letter to 2023 UAW Bargaining Convention: "The rank and file cannot afford to wait"](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-bargaining-convention): 2023-03-27 — This letter is being distributed to delegates and workers at the UAW’s Special Bargaining Convention in Detroit today.Download a printable copy here.
- [Statement on the UAW election crisis by rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-crisis): 2023-03-17 — The conclusion of the second round of the UAW national officers’ election has proven definitively that the election was a fraud conducted with contempt for the rights of the rank-and-file membership. As challenged ballots continue to be counted, Shaw
- [Abysmal turnout in UAW run-off confirms fraudulent character of election](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/run-off): 2023-02-23 — The date for mailing ballots in the second round of the UAW election has passed, and only 136,114 workers have cast votes, according to the court-appointed Monitor’s website. This equals to just 12 percent of the 1.1 million eligible active and retir
- [Fight back against the attack on jobs at Stellantis Belvidere Assembly! Mobilize support behind Stellantis workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/belvidere-02-23): 2023-02-12 — To discuss forming a rank-and-file committee or to speak out about your working conditions, contact my campaign today: willforuawpresident@gmail.com.
- [Video: Workers in the US need to know about the major strikes happening across Europe](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/video-europe): 2023-02-10 — In recent weeks, more than 2 million French workers have struck against proposed pension cuts by President Emmanuel Macron, who is seeking to raise the retirement age. In the UK, over half a million workers struck earlier this month against proposed 
- [Response to UAW Monitor's request for more information about election protest](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/letter-01-30-23): 2023-01-30 — On December 20, rank-and-file socialist candidate for UAW president Will Lehmanfiled a protestover the UAW bureaucracy’s deliberate efforts to suppress the vote in the first ever direct election for national union officers....
- [10 facts workers should know about the disputed first round of voting in the UAW elections](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/10-facts): 2023-01-27 — On December 19, rank-and-file Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate for UAW president Will Lehman filed aformal legal protestover the first round of the International Officer Elections, which took place in November....
- [Will Lehman submits additional evidence of voter suppression in UAW election to UAW Monitor](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/letter-011923): 2023-01-19 — The following letter by Will Lehman was sent to the court-appointed UAW Monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s elections. On December 19, Lehman filed anofficial protestover the conduct and results of the first round of...
- [In letter to UAW Monitor, Will Lehman demands response to protest over fraudulent UAW election](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/monitor-letter): 2023-01-13 — The following letter was sent by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to the court-appointed Monitor overseeing the UAW presidential elections.
- [Ray Curry and Shawn Fain: Stop blaming worker apathy for low turnout caused by voter suppression!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/curry-fain): 2023-01-04 — In the first round of the UAW officer elections, only 9 percent of members voted, with just 103,495 votes counted. After a long silence, both factions of the UAW bureaucracy—represented by Ray Curry and Shawn Fain—have spoken out about the fact that 
- [Will Lehman Submits Official Protest Challenging UAW Election Results and Vote Suppression](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uaw-election-challenge): 2022-12-19 — On Monday, December 19, Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker and candidate for United Auto Workers International president, filed a formal protest with the court-appointed UAW Monitor over the national UAW election results.
- [Why I am not supporting Shawn Fain in run-off vote](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/fain): 2022-12-12 — Shawn Fain, the presidential candidate for the UAW Members United slate, has asked me to support him in the runoff election with incumbent UAW President Ray Curry, which the UAW Monitor has scheduled between January 12 and February 28.
- [Place all candidates on the ballot in second round of UAW elections!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/results): 2022-12-04 — The votes cast in the first-ever election in UAW history have been tallied, and I am proud to announce that my campaign to abolish the bureaucracy and give power to the rank-and-file won 4,777 votes, or almost 5 percent of the total votes cast. Given
- [UC academic workers: Build a rank-and-file strike committee to prevent a sellout by the UAW bureaucracy!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ucstrike): 2022-11-22 — Are you a student or academic worker at the University of California?Contact meto share why you’re striking and what your working conditions are like.
- [UAW Presidential Candidate Will Lehman Sues UAW And Monitor for Violating Members' Right to Vote in National Officers Election](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/lawsuit): 2022-11-17 — On Thursday, November 17, Will Lehman filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan demanding that the UAW and the court-appointed Monitor overseeing the election delay all voting-related deadlines by 30 days
- [Mobilize UAW members and all workers behind the striking University of California academic workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/uc-strike): 2022-11-14 — As candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, I express my full support and solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers who went on strike today. I will do everything in my power to make your struggle known among UAW members and other worker
- [GM Flint Assembly workers launch rank-and-file committee](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/gm-flint): 2022-11-11 — The statement below was issued by a group of workers who have recently formed the GM Flint Truck Assembly Rank-and-File Committee, following the rank-and-file committees which have also been initiated at Ford Chicago and Stellantis Detroit Assembly C
- [Letter to UAW Monitor: Request for delay in ballot deadline for UAW elections](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ballot-delay): 2022-11-11 — The following letter was sent to the court-appointed Monitor overseeing the UAW national elections.
- [Curry team violates election rules amid reports of voter suppression](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ray-curry): 2022-11-09 — My campaign has heard from many of you who have not received ballots for the election of the UAW president and national officers and from others who report concerning information about attempts by the UAW apparatus to suppress the vote.
- [Support the HarperCollins strike!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/harpercollins): 2022-11-08 — Brothers and sisters at HarperCollins,
- [Ford Louisville Assembly workers: Build rank-and-file committees to fight job cuts and concessions](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/louisville): 2022-11-08 — My name is Will Lehman, and I am Mack Trucks worker in Pennsylvania who is running for UAW president to put power back in the hands of the rank and file. I am writing to Ford Louisville Assembly workers to explain my program to mobilize all UAW membe
- [Detroit Stellantis Mack workers: "Support Will Lehman for UAW president!"](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/detroit-stellantis-mack-workers-support-will-lehman-for-uaw-president): 2022-11-02 — The following statement was issued by the Stellantis Mack Assembly Rank-and-File Election Committee. The committee was recently formed by workers at Stellantis’ Detroit Assembly Complex – Mack (DACM) plant.
- [Letter to UAW Monitor: Workers report UAW violating federal law by telling TPTs they cannot vote](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/tpts-uaw-monitor): 2022-11-01 — On Tuesday, November 1, I sent the following letter to Neil Barofsky, the Monitor appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to oversee the conduct of the UAW. The letter demands that the Monitor investigate reports fro
- [Chicago Ford Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues statement: "Elect Will Lehman for UAW president!"](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/chicago-ford): 2022-10-30 — The following statement was unanimously adopted by the Chicago Ford Rank-and-File Election Committee on Saturday, October 29. To get involved with the Ford Chicago Rank-and-File Committee, send an email tochifordrfc@gmail.comor text ‪(773) 234-7135.
- [Build rank-and-file power to fight layoffs and concessions!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/fight-layoffs): 2022-10-18 — On Sunday, October 23, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, I am hosting an emergency online public meeting to discuss a strategy to defend jobs.Register here.
- [Mobilize the rank and file against Warren Truck job cuts!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/mobilize-the-rank-and-file-against-warren-truck-job-cuts): 2022-10-13 — As candidate for UAW president, I am outraged by Stellantis’ decision to eliminate the third shift at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant. This is an act of corporate terrorism which every worker must oppose.
- [Workers must fight to free Julian Assange!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/assange): 2022-10-12 — In less than one week, you will begin receiving ballots in the mail for the UAW elections. I have included information on how to vote and how to obtain a ballot if you don’t get one on my website. I urge all of you to vote, and to vote for me, Will L
- [Investigate the BP Husky refinery deaths and halt the carnage in America's workplaces](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/investigate-the-bp-husky-refinery-deaths-and-halt-the-carnage-in-americas-workplaces): 2022-10-06 — As candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, I call on my brothers and sisters to take a stand with me to fight unsafe and deadly conditions in America’s workplaces and the ongoing sacrifice of our health and lives for corporate profit.
- [Oppose threats to Stellantis Warren Truck Plant workers' jobs!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/warren): 2022-10-06 — I'm Will Lehman and I'm running for UAW international president. Stellantis’ Chief Manufacturing Officer Arnaud Deboeuf visited the Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Detroit on Tuesday, to make demands for better quality and lower absenteeism and threat
- [Defend the fired workers at GM Silao in Mexico!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/silao): 2022-09-30 — I am Will Lehman, a rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in the United States who is running for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW). The 391,000 active and 580,000 retired members of the UAW represent one of the most powerful sections of the w
- [Reply to Steven Greenhouse on the falsification of my position during UAW presidential debate](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/greenhouse): 2022-09-26 — On September 26, I sent the email below to Steven Greenhouse, the formerNew York Times reporter who moderated the presidential candidates debate on Thursday, September 22.
- [Deere workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for what workers need!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/deere): 2022-09-22 — My name is Will Lehman. I’m a second-tier, rank-and-file worker at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania, and I’m running for president of the United Auto Workers in the union’s national elections in October and November.
- [At UAW Monitor's VP debate, Solidarity House candidates lie about eliminating tiers](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/vp-debate): 2022-09-20 — Watch me debate UAW President Will Curry and other candidates for president Thursday, September 22, at 6:00 p.m. EDT. You can watch the debate and find out more information atWillforUAWPresident.org/debate.
- [Why rail workers need the support of the entire working class](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/support-rail): 2022-09-16 — My name is Will Lehman. I work at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania, and I’m running for president of the United Auto Workers in the union’s national elections next month.
- [Will Ray Curry debate a rank-and-file worker?](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/will-ray-curry-debate): 2022-09-15 — The following is an email that I sent to the UAW membership on Thursday, September 15.
- [Caterpillar workers: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with Deere, CNH and autoworkers in a fight back!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/caterpillar-workers-build-rank-and-file-committees-to-unite-with-deere-cnh-and-autoworkers-in-a-fight-back): 2022-09-09 — Dear brothers and sisters at Caterpillar,
- [Why UAW university employees should vote for me for UAW president](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/why-uaw-university-employees-should-vote-for-will-lehman-for-uaw-president): 2022-09-06 — My name is William Lehman. I am a 34-year-old second-tier autoworker at the Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and I am running for president of the United Auto Workers union. I want to explain to the more-than 100,000 university employees 
- [Mobilize the working class behind striking CNH workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/mobilize-the-working-class-behind-striking-cnh-workers): 2022-09-04 — As candidate for president of the United Auto Workers union, I call on autoworkers and other sections of the working class to mobilize in support of the 1,000 striking CNH workers in Wisconsin and Iowa. It is the responsibility of workers everywhere 
- [Five takeaways from my tour of auto plants](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/five-takeaways-from-my-tour-of-auto-plants): 2022-09-01 — Last week, due to a parts shortage at the Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania where I work, I was able to tour several auto plants and other workplaces. I spoke with hundreds of workers about my campaign at Ford plants in Dearborn, Michigan a
- [For a united struggle of US, Mexican and Canadian workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/for-a-united-struggle-of-us-mexican-and-canadian-workers): 2022-08-29 — As a candidate for president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the United States, I call on workers across every auto parts and assembly factory in Mexico to support my campaign. This is your struggle too.
- [Mobilize the entire working class behind striking Columbus teachers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/mobilize-the-entire-working-class-behind-striking-columbus-teachers): 2022-08-25 — As a candidate for president of the United Auto Workers, I call on all workers in the UAW, along with all teachers and other sections of the working class, to mobilize in support of the 4,000 teachers, librarians, school nurses and other educators on
- [Support the strike by the MASS MoCA workers! Fight for good wages and the right to art and culture for all!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/yntapz6r19mfkdud85lrqxjwby37ct): 2022-08-19 — This statement was issued by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman in support of aone-day strikeby workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
- [Mobilize the entire working class against the Biden administration's assault on rail workers!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/4f0lxsacebfo2ucur9snf5zboxqdr5): 2022-08-17 — I call on all workers in the UAW to support the struggle of rail workers against the rail companies and the Biden administration.
- [Halt production at SHAP to stop monkeypox spread!](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/gmtw3348k0y9ddpci7len3aqtv3d4v): 2022-08-10 — The report of a case of the monkeypox virus at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in the Detroit area is very concerning and calls for urgent action by autoworkers.
- [We can't fight for what we need without organizing ourselves](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/we-cant-fight-for-what-we-need-without-organizing-ourselves): 2022-07-29 — I’m Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker running for president of the UAW. Yesterday, I was nominated at the UAW Convention. This means that I will be on the ballot for president this fall.
- [Letter to UAW members: I am running for president to transfer power to the rank-and-file](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/letter-to-uaw-members-i-am-running-for-president-to-transfer-power-to-the-rank-and-file): 2022-07-21 — I’m William Lehman. I am 34 years old and have worked at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania for just short of five years. I am running for president of the UAW, and I bring to this campaign the experiences of tens of thousands of rank-and-file wor
- [HarperCollins workers strike: "You are in an important fight that every member of the UAW should know about"](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/harpercollins-workers-strike-you-are-in-an-important-fight-that-every-member-of-the-uaw-should-know-about): 2022-07-19 — Brothers and sisters at HarperCollins,
- [I'm running for president of the United Auto Workers to put rank-and-file workers in power](https://willforuawpresident.org/statements/ow35o09m7tcemb8a1vfwfpxirgljzo): 2022-06-29 — I’m William Lehman. Tomorrow morning I will be submitting my declaration of intent to run for president of the United Auto Workers. I am 34 years old and have worked at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania for just short of five years. That has been