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AFT Local 4973 President James Young has pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the union.
The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work.
There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Yet another UAW employee has been convicted and sentenced to prison for theft of union members’ dues in New Jersey, Lawrence Ackerman.
Former Unit Chairman of United Auto Workers Local 12, Douglas B. Dye, was charged with one count of embezzlement of assets from the Toledo-based union.
Unions claim to benefit their workers, but many are victims of compulsory unionism, forced to pay dues in order to get or keep a job. When union officials take these dues for their own enrichment, especially from an employee benefit…
Daniel Howes and Robert Snell of The Detroit News have assembled a very complete synopsis of a decade-long UAW scandal.
(Originally published on January 1, 2002) For well over three decades, congressional debates and recorded votes on the Right to Work issue have consistently benefited proponents and harmed opponents in subsequent election campaigns. The inverse has proven equally true: Whenever…
Every year, hundreds of thousands of additional jobs are “insourced” into the United States by foreign companies. By 2017, there were more than 7.4 million insourced jobs across the country, which “represented 5.9% of all private sector U.S. jobs,” as…
DETROIT (Reuters) – A former United Auto Workers board member charged with conspiring with other union leaders to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars of rank-and-file members’ dues is scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit on Tuesday. The…
Joseph Ashton, UAW vice-president, is expected to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and money laundering in December. On November 6, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Joseph Ashton, was charged in an information…