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        home > news > Automakers > Members Challenge Terms of UAW Consent Decree in Court

        Members Challenge Terms of UAW Consent Decree in Court

        Splinter group pushing for change to end corruption.

        Joseph Szczesny
        Joseph Szczesny , Executive Editor
        Feb. 23, 2021
        Some UAW members want changes to the consent decree negotiated between UAW President Rory Gamble, left, and former U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.

        A group within the United Auto Workers challenged the union’s established leadership, asking a federal judge for a larger voice in reforming the UAW.

        One of the key requests in the petition by the United All Workers for Democracy or UAWD is for a voice in the selection of the monitor and administrative officer, who will oversee the union’s internal activities for the next six years.

        The monitor will have no role in collective bargaining but will establish the rules used for critical internal elections. Under the consent decree signed by the union’s top officer last month, the UAW submits a list of names and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan selects then selects the monitor.

        Group takes fight to court

        In the brief filed with the court, UAWD wants a voice in process to ensure the monitor isn’t simply a rubber stamp for the union hierarchy. They contend the current leadership is looking for a way to evade accountability for the scandals that have engulfed the union for the last three years and wrecked its reputation for honesty.

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        The United All Workers for Democracy filed suit in federal court to try to get changes made to the consent decree.

        The petition also calls for additional measures to curb the influence of the Administration Caucus, which has controlled the union’s internal affairs for more than 70 years, including during last decade when federal investigators have said the union became mired in corruption.

        “We are hopeful that Federal District Court Judge David Lawson will grant our motion,” said Justin Mayhugh, co-chair of UAWD.

        He noted the group believes although criminal prosecutions are important, they’ll have a limited effect without reforms to the system that allowed corruption to take root.

        “During the entire process between the government and the UAW International Union in deciding what reforms would be imposed on the union, the UAW membership has never once been consulted,” added Mayhugh.

        “It is the membership of the union that has paid for the corruption of those who betrayed us, and it is the membership of the union that will have to work and live under the provisions agreed to in the Consent Decree. Why the membership hasn’t been allowed a voice in these discussions is troubling.”

        Reformers want checks and balances

        UAW President Rory Gamble
        Gamble says the problem is not with the way union officials are elected, it’s who is getting elected.

        Scott Houldieson, chairperson of UAWD, said the group wants a viable set of “checks and balances” to prevent a replay of the last few years. He added the union’s “spent millions of dues dollars on legal fees incurred to defend the indefensible. Contracts that were negotiated by corrupted individuals are suspect to UAW members.”

        The UAWD wants direct election of the union’s top officers, a change reformers have sought for more than 30 years.

        Rory Gamble, UAW president and the unofficial leader of the Administration Caucus, said recently he believes the current system of election by delegates to the union’s constitutional convention has served the union well throughout the years.

        The election process wasn’t corrupt, the people put in office violated their oaths, he said.

        Caucus in charge for seven decades

        The Consent Decree calls for a referendum election of the UAW membership to decide whether the convention delegates system will remain or whether the membership will elect the top officers of its union through a direct vote.

        The Administration Caucus has been in total control of the UAW for the last 70 years. All of the Administration Caucus candidates for the leadership of the UAW have been elected, almost always running unopposed.

        On the rare occasions when there was opposition, strong-arm tactics were employed by the Administration Caucus to achieve victory, Mayhugh and Houldieson noted.

        One reason the membership of the union gets saddled with corrupt leaders is the one-party state within the UAW. This one-party system of electing International Officers cultivated a culture of corruption at the highest levels of the union, they said.

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        4 responses to “Members Challenge Terms of UAW Consent Decree in Court”

        1. casteaway says:
          February 23, 2021 at 2:07 pm

          GM’s lawsuit v FCA/UAW has produced evidence of offshore accounts funneled through the BCBSM/UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust Fund, via bribery by FCA with UAW leadership. Why isn’t BCBSM being mentioned; why did Judge Borman dismiss regardless of new evidence produced by GM legal team?

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        2. nick says:
          February 23, 2021 at 5:59 pm

          Being a UAW member I am sickened at the corruption. I am also sickened that the membership has not once been consulted through this whole process. Not once!! I also feel Rory is just as corrupt as the rest. I have 0 trust in the International leadership. Our own local ex chairman was in Detroit as part of the negotiating team for this last contract. He stated that Terry Dittes (VP for the UAW GM division) came in and used strong arm tactics to get them to sign off on the SAME CONTRACT we went on strike for! 40 days on strike and we wound up with the SAME contract! They didnt fight for us this contract negotiation was corrupt too they had us go on strike all for show to look good for the media.

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          1. Don says:
            March 3, 2021 at 7:41 am

            The UAW did the same thing to the hospital workers at St Vincent Mercy in Toledo. The corruption was disgusting and they to were told take it our you will be fired. This was the UAW telling them this!

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        3. UAWmember says:
          February 25, 2021 at 1:06 am

          Rory Gamble says it’s not the election process, it’s the one’s getting elected. But if those that control the election process are corrupt, then who they elect will be corrupt as well. They aren’t going to elect someone who is honest and who will weed out corruption. He’s afraid he will be voted out! Which needs to happen.

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