DETROIT — United Auto Workers presidential candidate Shawn Fain has defeated incumbent Ray Curry in a historic, first-ever direct election for the union's highest office, the federal monitor overseeing the vote confirmed Saturday afternoon.
Fain will be sworn in on Sunday according to the monitor, clearing the way for him to lead the UAW's critical bargaining convention that opens Monday in Detroit. At the quadrennial convention, UAW leaders and delegates will determine what the priorities for negotiations later this year with Detroit's three automakers will be.
The results come after weeks of delays in vote tabulation as a thin margin between the two candidates showcased divisions in the Detroit-based union as it emerges from a yearslong corruption scandal and faces the threats from the electric transformation in its core industry.
