November 26, 2024
A Michigan federal judge pressed a United Auto Workers attorney Tuesday about whether the union was being evasive in describing how much material it had turned over to fulfill the request of a monitor appointed to oversee the union as part of his investigation into some of the union's top officials.
July 18, 2024
Allowing the United Auto Workers to withhold information from the court-appointed monitor overseeing its cleanup from days of corruption and embezzlement would undermine the purpose of the monitorship, the federal government and the monitor told a Michigan federal judge, asking him to deny the union's bid to shield documents.
July 15, 2024
Remnants remain of the "culture of fear and reprisal" that gripped the United Auto Workers when union leaders were embezzling funds and accepting bribes from automakers in the 2010s, but progress has been made toward cultural change at the union, a court-appointed monitor said in his latest report.
July 08, 2024
The court-appointed monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers' compliance with a 2021 consent decree that resolved a corruption probe told a Michigan federal judge Monday that the union cannot withhold certain documents from him, saying the consent decree doesn't entitle the union to confidentiality.
July 05, 2024
United Auto Workers is urging a Michigan federal judge to declare that the union can withhold confidential information — such as "highly sensitive" collective bargaining strategy — from the "unprecedented" amount of discovery requested by a monitor investigating alleged financial misconduct and retaliation within the union.
June 11, 2024
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and other union leaders are under investigation over allegations of retaliation and financial misconduct, an independent monitor has detailed in a report, saying the union has "slow-rolled" access to documents for the probe.
March 20, 2023
An independent monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers said there is "no basis" at this time to grant President Ray Curry's challenge to a still-pending runoff to determine the union's next president, as a challenger candidate appears poised to take over the union in its first-ever direct election.
November 28, 2022
A Michigan federal judge dismissed a suit seeking to delay the Monday deadline in the first-ever direct vote to elect the president of the United Auto Workers over alleged notice and ballot distribution lapses, saying the candidate behind the case lacked standing to sue.
July 20, 2022
The Jenner & Block LLP partner appointed to oversee the United Auto Workers' compliance with a deal ending a federal corruption probe told a Detroit federal judge that the union has been intermittently cooperative, withholding notes from an internal audit and hiding its investigation of a senior official.
July 01, 2022
A Michigan federal judge held Friday that retired members of the United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America can't run for president of the union's International Executive Board, siding with the union's interpretation of its constitution.