General Motors is seeking to vacate an order and remove a judge who called its racketeering lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler a 'waste of time.'
"General Motors has played a vital role in helping the country fight the COVID-19 pandemic, advance diversity and inclusion, and drive prosperity with good paying jobs," the company said in the statement. "Nothing, including the RICO lawsuit we filed against FCA and three convicted former FCA executives, has or will distract GM and its leadership team from 'fully providing their vision and leadership' on these critical issues now and into the future.
Fiat Chrysler, in an emailed statement Tuesday, agreed with "Borman's observation that these are extraordinary times for our country, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the tragic death of George Floyd and the spotlight it has focused on racism and social justice."filed the racketeering lawsuit
in November, alleging the company was harmed as a result of "corrupted" collective bargaining involving Fiat Chrysler leaders bribing union officials into taking company-friendly positions that resulted in unfair labor costs. It argued that although the United Auto Workers union uses "patterned" bargaining, GM did not receive the same benefits as the Italian-American automaker.
Gary Jones, the newly-elected President of the United Auto Workers , addresses the 37th UAW Constitutional Convention June14, 2018 at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan.Much of the lawsuit centers on the late-Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who unexpectedly died in 2018 and has been implicated in a federal probe into bribery and corruption of the union.
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