My name is Frank Goeddeke. I have been a UAW member in good standing since 1979. I have had professional training (MBA, PhD in Management) and worked on staff for a couple of years as a UAW temporary organizer and doing organizational research for the National Organizing Department. I completed a term as Trustee in my local (653) and have also served as co-President and other positions with my graduate assistant local (NEA/AFT affiliate) when I was in graduate school (1999-2004). I hold a journeyman’s card in Experimental Auto Assembly and have also worked on Machine Repair and production in GM Lansing Plant #1 and Plant #3 (Local 652). I retired from GM Milford Proving Grounds in 2008 (Local 653), served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia, and now I am well into my third dream career in retirement.
I was active in UAWD (Unite All Workers in Democracy) from its early days in 2019 through its dissolution in 2025. I was an active supporter of 1M1V (One-Member-One-Vote) for electing IEB (International Executive Board) positions, and electing the insurgent Members United slate of candidates for IEB positions. I also served as an election observer for the Fain campaign during the runoff election.
I honestly have no idea if or whom I will support in the next elections.
I started getting active in UAW reform efforts in early 2020. The UAW scandals were all over the newspapers in 2019, and I asked to read the IEB meeting minutes of the November 2, 2019 IEB meeting. This was the meeting that gave then-President Gary Jones a paid leave of absence, rather than kicking him out on his ear. When I read the minutes of that meeting, Region 1 Director Frank Stuglin told me that he was on staff at the region for 20 years, and this was the first time he’d heard of a member asking to read IEB meeting minutes. Hearing this, I thought to myself, “Wow, no wonder we had all that corruption!”. So I made a personal commitment to myself to go in and read all IEB meeting minutes and Int’l Trustee Reports. If nothing else, just so members of the IEB will know that what they do in those meetings will get out to members. So at this point I have read all IEB meeting minutes since November 2019, and studied all International Trustee reports since then too.
This webpage is my effort, with occasional help and support from other long-time UAW activists from various factions. This project is not affiliated with, receiving support from, or trying to support any organization, candidate, or faction within the UAW, and certainly not any organization outside of the UAW. I am not (nor is anyone else) making any money from this website or otherwise standing to benefit financially or otherwise.
I don’t want to put my email address out here for bots, but if you want to contact me with comments, corrections, suggestions, criticisms, please send an email to efndccdjd@flzhk.bnl (use the next highest letters in the alphabet).
