UAW Votes for Direct Election of Leaders in Wake of Scandal
DETROIT—Members of the United Auto Workers union have overwhelmingly approved picking their leaders by direct ballot elections, rejecting a system that many blamed for a bribery and embezzlement scandal in the union’s top ranks.
The “one member, one vote” measure got about 64 percent of 140,586 valid ballots that were received by Monday’s mail-in deadline. Only about 36 percent favored the current system of leadership picked by delegates to a convention, according to results released Dec. 2.