FBI Raids UAW Locations As Part of Ongoing Corruption Probe
The FBI’s ongoing investigation of corruption within the auto industry led to raids four states targeting the United Auto Workers on Wednesday.
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A Tale of Union Racketeering or How I Learned to Love the Hobbs Act
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Richard Debs was President of the United Auto Workers union local 1776. (No relation to Eugene V. Debs, the union organizer and socialist from the early 20th Century.) Debs had been the President of the local for 15 years in 1988. 1776 was the local representing the workers at the General…
2 Ex-UAW Officials Get Prison Time for Extorting General Motors
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — So much for above the board negotiations. Two ex-United Auto Workers officials were sentenced to prison Tuesday in federal court in Detroit for conspiring to extort General Motors during a strike in 1997 at the Pontiac Truck Plant. Donny Douglas, 70, of Holly, Mich., a former UAW International Servicing…