 He also won in the United States-based locals, but the vote in Canada was overwhelmingly for McBride (McBride had a Canadian, Lynn Williams, running on his slate for International Secretary).Canada also did not have labor law fraud protections that exist in the U.S.

Sadlowski had raised donations from both inside and outside the union.His enemies had charged that if he was elected outsiders would run the union, and Sadlowski's failure to respond forcibly may have cost him many votes.