July 05, 2024
United Auto Workers is urging a Michigan federal judge to declare that the union can withhold confidential information — such as "highly sensitive" collective bargaining strategy — from the "unprecedented" amount of discovery requested by a monitor investigating alleged financial misconduct and retaliation within the union.
June 11, 2024
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and other union leaders are under investigation over allegations of retaliation and financial misconduct, an independent monitor has detailed in a report, saying the union has "slow-rolled" access to documents for the probe.
March 20, 2023
An independent monitor overseeing the United Auto Workers said there is "no basis" at this time to grant President Ray Curry's challenge to a still-pending runoff to determine the union's next president, as a challenger candidate appears poised to take over the union in its first-ever direct election.
November 28, 2022
A Michigan federal judge dismissed a suit seeking to delay the Monday deadline in the first-ever direct vote to elect the president of the United Auto Workers over alleged notice and ballot distribution lapses, saying the candidate behind the case lacked standing to sue.
July 20, 2022
The Jenner & Block LLP partner appointed to oversee the United Auto Workers' compliance with a deal ending a federal corruption probe told a Detroit federal judge that the union has been intermittently cooperative, withholding notes from an internal audit and hiding its investigation of a senior official.
July 01, 2022
A Michigan federal judge held Friday that retired members of the United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America can't run for president of the union's International Executive Board, siding with the union's interpretation of its constitution.
November 12, 2021
The United Auto Workers' independent compliance monitor said in a report that the union still has a ways to go in implementing promised reforms as part of the UAW's settlement that ended a U.S. Department of Justice corruption and fraud investigation.
May 12, 2021
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday granted the government's unopposed motion to appoint Jenner & Block LLP partner Neil Barofsky as an independent monitor to help carry out a consent decree that ended a sprawling probe into the United Auto Workers union.
April 27, 2021
A Michigan federal judge ruled Tuesday that a grassroots membership caucus of the United Auto Workers can't intervene in the union's $1.5 million deal to settle the government's fraud and corruption investigation, finding that the request is untimely and the group doesn't have a tangible legal interest in its enforcement.
April 13, 2021
The federal government asked a Michigan federal judge Monday to appoint Jenner & Block LLP partner Neil Barofsky and his legal team, including a Crowell & Moring LLP partner, to monitor a consent decree that ended a corruption and fraud investigation targeting the United Auto Workers union.