UAW Corruption

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UAW moving to disband Region 5 embroiled in federal corruption probe
Ian Thibodeau and Daniel Howes, The Detroit News

The United Auto Workers is disbanding its 17-state Region 5, a hotbed of the financial wrongdoing exposed by the continuing federal crackdown of union corruption.

The move, announced Friday by President Rory Gamble, aims to break up the region whose St. Louis-based headquarters organized perennial conferences in Palm Springs, Calif., and Missouri. Events over a two-year period spent more than $1 million in member dues on poolside villas, booze, cigars, golf and steak dinners, federal authorities say — much of it fraudulently expensed to the UAW accounting department.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/12/06/uaw-disband-region-5-ensnared-corruption-probe/4352758002/


https://www.autonews.com/static/section/report05.html

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GM's lawsuit alleges that FCA's former CEO Sergio Marchionne authorized bribes of more than $1.5 million paid to UAW officials. Marchionne died in 2018.




https://www.npr.org/2019/11/20/781479446/uaw-president-gary-jones-abruptly-resigns-amid-corruption-scandal

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13 UAW officials being charged by the FBI.

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Wow, my local 2250 is in Region 5. I have a good friend from my plant that works at the Region 5 office.