Posts Tagged ‘UAW’
UAW-Owned Golf Course & Resort Losses: $60+ Million
As numerous UAW officials are pleading guilty to embezzlement involving resort and golfing schemes, it seems obvious that the decades of losses at the UAW-owned resort and golf courses at Black Lake should be getting a second look by Labor Department and Justice Department investigators. Spending like politicians who tax others to pay for their…
Read MoreJustice Department: UAW’s Gary Jones “Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement, Racketeering, and Tax Evasion”
Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other high-level UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million of UAW dues money, to further racketeering activity, and to evade taxes announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider
Read MoreUAW Selling Dennis Williams $1.29 Million Home
What do your UAW forced-union dues get you? More and more non-member forced-fee payers and union members are questioning the value of UAW affiliation. But, it was good for former UAW Kingpin Dennis Williams who expected to receive a new luxurious home on Black Lake thanks to the UAW board. Well, it was good for…
Read MoreRank and File Denounce Latest UAW Union Boss to be Sentenced
Rank and file UAW members had their say in September, 2019, as many attended Mike Grimes’ trial and had plenty to say both to him and the press about Grimes’ crimes. Nick Monacelli on clickondetroit: As he left the courtroom in September, 2019, Mike Grimes was met by a group of retirees who angrily yelled…
Read MoreUAW Union Official Grimes Ordered To Pay $1,509,500
As the specter of a federal takeover looms over the United Auto Workers (UAW) another union official has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering before Judge Bernard Freidman of the U. S. District Court. UAW rank and file members reel from the fallout of another boss theft of their hard-earned,…
Read MoreUAW Corruption & Greed Driving Itself Over a Cliff
Daniel Howes and Robert Snell of The Detroit News have assembled a very complete synopsis of a decade-long UAW scandal. It work the read to see how union bosses take the trust and money gained off the backs of hardworking employees and taxpayers and indulge in colossal self-indulgences. Million-dollar trips to Palm Springs, homes, golf…
Read MoreAnother UAW Executive Enriches Himself and Others on Forced Dues
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 with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud (18 U.S.C. 1349) and…
Read More2019 U.S. DOL Criminal Enforcement Actions
2019 U.S. DOL Criminal LMRDA Enforcement Actions September 27, 2019 by NILRR Staff (Edit) 2019 USDOL Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) (updated by USDOL 9/26/2019) On September 17, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Theodore E. Watson, former business manager for Insulators Local 74 (located in Des Moines, Iowa), was…
Read MoreUAW Strikes General Motors to the Possible Tune of $90 Million Per Day
United Auto Workers (UAW) bosses called a strike Saturday night as they held out for more, more more from General Motors (GM). About 48,000 UAW members walked out Saturday evening. Bank of America analysts predict the strike could cost GM as much as $90 million per day. As a result, GM shares are down nearly…
Read MoreAnother UAW Official Indicted for Embezzlement
UAW Board Member and Region 5 Director Vance Pearson, was indicted for conspiring to embezzles hundreds of thousands in union dues. The announcement comes as UAW is in the midst of negotiations with the “Big Three” automakers on a new UAW contract, and President Gary Jones’ premises were searched. Nora Naughton has the story in…
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