United States of America v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

  1. July 18, 2024

    Feds Say UAW Shouldn't Be Able To Keep Info From Monitor

    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.

  2. July 15, 2024

    UAW Staff Culture Needs More Work, Monitor Says

    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.

  3. July 08, 2024

    UAW Monitor Says Union Must Turn Over Docs

    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.

  4. July 05, 2024

    UAW Wants 'Highly Sensitive' Strategy Kept From Monitor

    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.

  5. June 11, 2024

    UAW Prez Faces Probe Over Retaliation Claims, Monitor Says

    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.

  6. March 20, 2023

    UAW Monitor Rejects Election Protest As Runoff Nears End

    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.

  7. November 28, 2022

    UAW Presidential Hopeful Can't Delay Imminent Vote Count

    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.

  8. July 20, 2022

    UAW Subverted Ethics Review After Feds' Probe, Monitor Says

    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.

  9. July 01, 2022

    UAW Retirees Can't Lead Union Exec Board, Judge Says

    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.

  10. November 12, 2021

    UAW Reforms After Fraud Probe Still Slow-Going, Report Says

    The United Auto Workers' independent compliance monitor said in a report that the union still has a ways to go in implementing promised reforms as part of the UAW's settlement that ended a U.S. Department of Justice corruption and fraud investigation.