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UAW agrees to government monitoring, settles corruption suit Consent decree with Justice Department calls for an independent monitor to investigate future corruption, discipline union officials. Detroit, Michigan – The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has agreed to a consent decree with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit, settling a long-running corruption investigation that led to convictions or guilty pleas from several Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) executives and union officials including The U.S. Department of Justice filed anti-corruption and anti-fraud civil lawsuits against t...

Credit UAW Five years after the FBI began investigating corruption in the leadership ranks of the United Auto Workers union, the U.S. Justice Department and the union have agreed to a consent order that places the union under the oversight of an independent monitor. The investigation began with charges against a former Fiat Chrysler official, and spread from there, ending with two former UAW presidents, Gary Jones and Dennis Williams, pleading guilty to embezzlement, among other crimes. The monitor will be in place for six years, at least, unless he or she determines the oversight is no longe...

A United Auto Workers assemblyman works on a Ford F-150 truck at a plant in Dearborn, Mich., in 2018. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) DETROIT (CN) — The federal government and the United Auto Workers said Monday they have reached a settlement to reform the powerful union after corruption infected the very top of the historic organization, resulting in 15 criminal convictions. “Today we are joining together to announce that the UAW, one of the largest and most prestigious unions in the world, now has a pathway to be free of corruption,” Eastern Michigan U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider sai...

UAW Strikes Deal with Feds to Remain Independent Independent monitor will keep an eye on union for six years. UAW President Rory Gamble said the union would retain its autonomy during a press conference Monday. Under pressure from a lengthy federal investigation that led to the conviction of two former union presidents on criminal charges, the United Auto Workers agreed to a settlement that will place the union’s finances and its internal elections under the supervision of an outside monitor for least the next six years. Matthew Schneider, the U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Michigan,...