UAW Presidential Race Heads to Runoff in a Rebuke of Leaders (1)

United Auto Workers President Ray Curry failed to secure a new four-year term in the union’s first ever direct election, setting up a runoff to lead union members in contract talks with Detroit automakers next year.

About 106,790 ballots were cast, or around 1/10th of the UAW’s 1 million members, according to unofficial results from the federal monitor who ran the election. Curry garnered 34,592 votes, or 32%, with 84% of the votes counted, as of 5:38 p.m. New York time Friday. Shawn Fain, backed by Unite All Workers for Democracy, a reform group within the union, had 34,412 ...