Will LehmanFor UAW President

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Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW President
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Why I’m running for UAW President in 2026

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.

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NIH Fellows in 2023

Oppose Trump’s union-busting attack on National Institutes of Health researchers!

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.

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Students and teachers march together at the University of California-Los Angeles, April 29, 2024

University of California academic workers: Enforce your strike mandate!

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.

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Ronald Adams and family

11 months since the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: Workers cannot forgive and forget what happened to our brother

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.

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Family service workers on strike in Lorain County, Ohio, March 2026

UAW rank and file must support Local 2192 strikers and fight the assault on social services!

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.

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Stellantis workers leaving the plant at shift change, some wearing high-visibility vests

No profit sharing: A slap in the face to Stellantis workers who produced billions

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.

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Will Lehman in a work jacket standing in front of large industrial windows

For an insurgent slate of rank-and-file worker delegates to the UAW convention!

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.

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Polyak Mining coal miners in hard hats raise their hands in a vote during the wildcat strike at night, Kınık, İzmir

Solidarity with the striking coal miners at Polyak Mining in İzmir, Turkey!

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.

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Quakertown police chief places a student in a chokehold during a walkout protesting ICE raids, February 20, 2026

Hands off the Quakertown high school students!

I condemn the vicious assault by Quakertown police against high school students who walked out to oppose ICE raids terrorizing immigrant families.

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Workers guarding the gates at Tridonex-Cardone join a vaccination campaign, Matamoros, Tampaulipas [Photo: Gobierno de Matamoros]

Support the Mexican auto parts workers’ fight against mass layoffs!

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.

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Students and teachers march together at the University of California-Los Angeles, April 29, 2024. (Source: WSWS)

University of California grad students: Take the struggle out of the hands of the UAW bureaucracy!

The overwhelming strike-authorization vote by 48,000 University of California academic workers is a powerful expression of class anger.

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Masked ICE agents outside of Factory Zero (Source: Reddit)

Detroit workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight ICE terror!

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.

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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

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

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

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Will Lehman for UAW President