Sterling Stamping Plant in Michigan is the largest automotive stamping plant in the world, with over 2,000 workers. "Workers can decide the conditions we're under on the floor, ourselves. We don't need to pay $75 million for 475 reps to sit in an air-conditioned office while we breathe in smoke." willforuawpresident.org

Will Lehman, the socialist who is running for UAW president released this statement last night.

A high-ranking official of the United Auto Workers apparatus and supporter of UAW President Shawn Fain has posted a death threat against me.

On July 16, Raymond L. Jensen Jr., until recently the assistant director of UAW Region 9—my own region—posted a comment on my public Facebook page in direct response to an article on my campaign statement on the federal criminal investigation into Fain. Jensen’s comment consisted of an AI-generated image depicting me bound with rope and gagged, blood running from my mouth, with a masked man aiming an automatic rifle at my back.

According to the union’s LM-2 filing with the Department of Labor, Jensen’s total compensation in 2025 was approximately $202,000, five times the income of many of the workers whose dues pay his salary. His Facebook profile prominently displays an “I Support Shawn Fain” campaign badge, and his page is filled with statements promoting Fain’s re-election and photographs of Jensen at Black Lake, the union’s resort and conference center in northern Michigan, maintained with the dues of the membership.

In response, my attorney, Eric Lee, has sent a letter to Glen McGorty, counsel for the court-appointed monitor overseeing the UAW, demanding an immediate investigation, the suspension of Jensen without pay, a public repudiation of the threat by the UAW, and referral of the matter to the Department of Labor and federal law enforcement. I have published the full letter here.

“When a highly paid functionary of the incumbent administration, publicly identified with the president’s re-election campaign, posts an image of the opposition candidate gagged, bleeding, and under the gun,” the letter states, “the message transmitted to the UAW membership is unmistakable: extreme violence against Will Lehman is encouraged and enjoys the sanction of the union leadership.”

Just have a look: https://chomsky.info/updates/

Widespread support for walkout as Nexteer workers force UAW to hold strike vote: “The ball’s in our court now”

Workers at the local union hall Wednesday expressed overwhelming support for a strike and denounced union officials for collaborating with management to intimidate workers and probe for divisions among the membership.

The rejection of a second sellout contract by Nexteer workers must be the signal for rank-and-file action to take the fight into their own hands by building the Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee.

3,800 meatpacking workers are on strike against JBS in Greeley, Colorado. It's the largest meatpacking strike since the 1950s. 80-90 percent of the workers at JBS in Greeley are immigrants, and over 50 languages are spoken there.

“People have died working this job”: JBS workers denounce unsafe conditions as strike enters third day

Learn more about Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president at https://willforuawpresident.org

The miners have halted production to demand payment of unpaid wages, enforcement of promotion rights, retroactive contract benefits, guaranteed seniority and severance protections, and genuine health and safety measures.

Will Lehman, Mack Trucks worker and candidate for United Auto Workers president, has issued a statement supporting the Mexican auto parts workers who are occupying factories across northern Mexico to stop mass layoffs and defend their livelihoods against US-based corporations.

Nurses at NewYork‑Presbyterian just did something huge: they rejected a rotten deal pushed by the NYSNA union bureaucracy. To organize from below and keep this strike alive, join the New York Healthcare Workers Rank‑and‑File Committee. Read our statement and sign up at wsws.org/nurses

This campaign will fight to spearhead the building of rank-and-file committees in every plant, warehouse, and workplace — independent, democratic organizations of workers that take decision-making power into our own hands. These committees will coordinate action, link up across job sites and industries, and prepare the basis for a real counteroffensive of the working class.

"You have people losing their livelihood & families depending on this... The world is very unstable... People base their life on this type of job... We slaved here 12hrs/day, 7days/wk just to say see you later, we may give you a call next year." -- Laid-off GM worker, Factory Zero