On Monday, supporters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) presidential candidate spoke to workers at the Nexteer auto parts plant in Saginaw, Michigan about Lehman’s campaign and the working conditions they face.
Campaigners for Lehman distributed thousands of leaflets across plants in the Midwest and Appalachian states last week, encountering widespread anger among workers over their conditions.
Four hundred workers who manufacture backhoes and other construction equipment walked out of the plant along the Mississippi River on May 2, joining another 700 workers at CNH’s farm tractor plant in Racine, Wisconsin.
A leading member of the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee joined supporters of United Auto Workers presidential candidate Will Lehman at the General Motors plant in Kansas City, before the campaign team moved on to St. Louis.
Supporters of the United Auto Workers presidential candidate spoke with John Deere workers in Waterloo, Iowa about last year’s strike, along with Stellantis workers facing the closure of the Belvidere Assembly Plant near Rockford, Illinois