WNYShooter Loc: WNY

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-uaw-president-charged-with-conspiring-to-embezzle-union-funds-11583418880

Prosecutors say Gary Jones embezzled union funds to spend on trips, liquor, other luxuries

Federal prosecutors have charged former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones with conspiracy to embezzle union funds, making him the highest-ranking ex-union official to be ensnared in the Justice Department’s yearslong corruption probe.

Mr. Jones, who led the UAW through contract negotiations late last year with the Detroit car makers and a 40-day strike at General Motors Co., is alleged to have been a part of a group of senior UAW leaders who embezzled more than $1 million to pay for private villas, liquor, golf and other luxuries, according to charging documents filed with a Michigan federal court and made public Thursday.

Mr. Jones couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

pendennis

Living in the immediate area, these indictments and "informations" have become everyday news.

The UAW has long abided corruption among its leaders. The UAW built the resort at Black Lake as a retreat for UAW members. They also built "cabins" for retired presidents. The term "cabin" is oxymoronic. Those cabins are plush retreats that cost in the multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This all started when it was discovered that personnel from FCA and the UAW were discovered to have misused massive amounts of training funds, diverting dollars from training to their own pockets.

Hoffa's Teamster corruption barely holds a candle to these guys.

It's what comes from a lack of t***sparency by the union bosses.

idaholover Loc: Nampa ID

Unions are nothing more than money laundering schemes for the Democrat party.

pendennis

Amen to that.

The unions got legitimacy by the FDR administration as a sop for their support. There's absolutely nothing in the U.S. Constitution which gives legitimacy to "collective bargaining", even the most broadly defined powers of Congress under the "Commerce Clause" makes it legal to force someone to negotiate with someone who has no legal interest in one's private property. The worker does not have any vested interest in the company. Why, then do they have a lien on the companies' profits? No one forces the worker to stay at a company which pays them too little for their wants.

They defy financial oversight by the Feds, something that corporations can't do.

Right now, the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund is near bankruptcy (2025), and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is slated to become insolvent at the same time.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa