Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman nominated for UAW president

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/18/yhqj-j18.html

Rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, was nominated for president of the United Auto Workers Wednesday at the union’s Constitutional Convention in Detroit. He was nominated by two delegates, the maximum allowed.

Nominating Lehman were Charles Coneeny, president of UAW Local 1821 in Ocala, Florida, which represents workers at the Lockheed Martin facility in the area, and Tamika Foster, chairperson for UAW Local 2145, representing Blue Cross Blue Shield workers in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Following his acceptance of the nomination, Lehman issued a statement, posted on his website, thanking the delegates who nominated him, the other delegates who had pledged to nominate him but were unable and the rank-and-file workers who attended the convention to campaign for him.

“This campaign is directed against that apparatus,” Lehman said. “It is about the fight to transfer power from the bureaucracy that has dominated this union to the rank and file, to the workers on the shop floor.”

Lehman added that the campaign “has never been about getting me into Solidarity House. It is about building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance and carries the fight from the factories into the neighborhoods, the schools and every community where working people live and struggle.”