Every UAW member has the right to vote for the union’s top officers. Once you become a UAW member, you directly elect the union’s president and executive board. Each UAW local union must audit its books every 6 months, and is audited by the International UAW every 3 years, and there is an outside, independent audit of the International UAW every year.
Every union decision is appealable by members to the Public Review Board, which is composed of individuals independent of UAW, or to the Convention Appeals Committee, which is composed of members chosen at random from among the delegates elected to the previous convention.