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This story was updated July 20 with additional info, including a new sidebar describing the federal monitor's latest report. Editors Auto Workers (UAW) members made history last November, winning direct elections of national officers (“one member, one vote”) in a membership referendum. Now delegates are headed to a Constitutional Convention where candidates will be nominated
On Thursday, July 21, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman sent a letter to Neil Barofsky, the Monitor appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to oversee the conduct of the UAW.
The independent monitor's report detailed blatant violations of the consent decree signed the UAW, raising question of whether President Ray Curry and other top executives should be eligible to run for reelection at next week’s convention in Detroit.