by Justin | Jan 24, 2021 | Administration Caucus, Gregg Shotwell, Opinion, UAW Corruption Scandal
I am writing this in January 2021 for a new generation of auto workers who don’t knowthe history they are piggy-backing. Who don’t know who hogtied them into thiscorkscrew position. It’s all becoming more clear as the federales crack down. But thenews isn’t new....
by Justin | Jan 22, 2021 | Administration Caucus, UAW Corruption Scandal
Prosecutors on Wednesday said a United Auto Workers official caught in a years-long corruption scandal deserves probation because he helped prosecutors convict two former presidents and secure federal oversight of the belabored union. Edward “Nick”...
by Justin | Jan 19, 2021 | Administration Caucus, Labor Notes, Nelson Lichtenstein, Organizing, UAW Corruption Scandal
“The UAW has been a one-party regime for many decades because the union convention, which elects all the top national officers, has been tightly controlled by an “Administration Caucus,” which routinely wins an overwhelming proportion of the delegate vote.Actual...
by Justin | Jan 14, 2021 | Administration Caucus, UAW Corruption Scandal
Wearing wires in meetings with United Auto Workers leaders put a convicted former union official “at risk,” according to a federal court filing from Edward “Nick” Robinson’s lawyer Wednesday requesting that he serve probation instead of...
by Justin | Jan 13, 2021 | UAW Corruption Scandal
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A local United Auto Workers leader is facing felony charges of embezzlement and falsifying records. Brian Rittenhouse, who was the financial secretary for UAW Local 1320 in Kent County, has been charged with one count of embezzlement and...
by Justin | Jan 4, 2021 | Auto News, FCA, UAW Corruption Scandal
Alphons Iacobelli, the former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV vice president who bought a Ferrari, bejeweled pens and a backyard pool with money siphoned during a conspiracy involving the automaker and the United Auto Workers, received a prison break Monday. U.S....
