UAW Members Likely To Approve Direct Election Of Leaders
DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union are set to approve picking their leaders in direct elections, according to the ballots that have already been counted.
With 72% of the ballots counted, nearly 63% favor direct elections, while about 37% want to keep the current system of delegates selecting the union’s leadership.
A federal court-appointed monitor conducting the election said on his website Wednesday that the votes in favor of direct elections “crossed a threshold that indicates that it will receive more votes than the delegate system and will prevail.”
Direct elections received 65,136 of the ballots counted so far, while 38,503 wanted delegate voting. The results are unofficial and the full count likely won’t be done until Thursday, the website said.
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