by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 3, 2020
Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $1 million dollars in union funds and tax evasion. Jones, 63, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to embezzle UAW dues money and...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 2, 2020
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. revealed that 85% of its employees in in the United States, Mexico and Canada are now at work building new vehicles after a long layoff triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the week, FCA added third crews at the busy...
by Michael Strong | Jun 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has wrecked much of the carefully orchestrated production plans of automakers around the world, making it tougher for potential buyers of high-demand vehicles, like pickups, to secure the vehicle they want. It appears that General Motors will...
by Michael Strong | May 27, 2020
Less than 24 hours after Ford Motor Co. temporarily shut down plant operations at its Kansas City Assembly Plant after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 – the third time in the span of a week the company’s been forced to do so – it had to close a line at...
by Michael Strong | May 21, 2020
President Donald Trump toured Ford Motor Co.’s Rawsonville Components Plant where the company has been churning out ventilators to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and praised the company and the plants workers for their efforts to help in the fight. “I consider Ford to...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 20, 2020
Just two days after reopening its U.S. and Canadian plants – and a day before hosting a visit by President Donald Trump – Ford briefly was forced to shutter two assembly lines when multiple workers were found to be suffering COVID-19 infections. Crews immediately went...
by Joseph Szczesny | May 18, 2020
This story has been updated with new information. As armed protests at Michigan’s state capitol in Lansing calling for an end to stay-home orders capture attention around the world, auto workers are expressing serious apprehension about going back to work despite...
by Michael Strong | May 15, 2020
Former UAW President Gary Jones pleaded not guilty to federal charges of embezzling more than $1 million from the union and failing to pay taxes on the money in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Jones, who resigned last year, is expected to plead guilty in June after...
by Joseph Szczesny | May 14, 2020
The fallout from pandemic created by COVID-19 will weigh heavily on Ford Motor Co.’s results for the second quarter but the company is moving forward with plans that will put the company on much stronger footing in the future, Ford executives told stockholders during...
by Joseph Szczesny | May 13, 2020
Former UAW President Gary Jones will be arraigned Thursday on charges he conspired with key aides to embezzle more than $1 million dollars in union funds. Jones also was charged with failing to pay income taxes on the money stolen from the United Auto Workers. The...
by Joseph Szczesny | May 8, 2020
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Walter Reuther, the legendary leader of the United Auto Workers, who built the union into a significant force in American life. Reuther’s death in May 1970 came at a tumultuous time. The four students had been...
by Michael Strong | May 6, 2020
Ford is sending out its first shipment of respirators, designed in-house with 3M, to health-care workers in Seattle fighting COVID-19. After pledging to help, Ford partnered with 3M to develop and produce the powered air-purifying respirators, or PAPRs, using only...
