Just two days before the UAW's contracts with Detroit automakers were due t...
), focusing on thorny issues like healthcare costs and profit-sharing at a time when U.S. new vehicle sales are declining.
Pearson’s arrest comes just two weeks after the FBI conducted searches including at Jones’ home, as part of an ongoing corruption probe into illegal payments to union officials. “This does have the potential to compromise whatever leverage the union’s leaders think they have,” he said. In 1988, the Justice Department sued to force out senior leaders at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and appoint a trustee because of the union’s connection to organized crime. The government oversaw the union from March 1989 until 2015 when it agreed to a five-year transition period that will end in February 2020.The complaint said between 2014 and 2018 Pearson and other leading UAW officials had submitted “fraudulent expense forms.
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