But Holiefield, who joined the UAW in 1973 as a Chrysler worker, had his detractors. He was criticized for accepting a 2011 UAW contract for Chrysler's blue-collar workers that was less rich than ...

Joseph Ashton, who once headed Amherst-based United Auto Workers Region 9, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for his role in a corruption scandal. Ashton, a New Jersey resident, pleaded ...

A former United Auto Workers official from Grand Island was charged Friday by federal prosecutors in a widening corruption scandal. Jeffery Pietrzyk, 74, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire ...

To date, 10 people have pleaded guilty in connection with the criminal investigation into illegal payoffs. Last month, Jeffery Pietrzyk, a former high-level official in the UAW’s GM Department ...

Robinson, 72, of Kirkwood, Mo., was based at the UAW's Region 5 office near St. Louis. The office was led by Gary Jones until Jones became UAW president in 2018.

UAW official Edward Robinson leaves federal court in Detroit, Monday, March 2, 2020. The former senior official at the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to conspiring with other labor leaders to ...

More than 4,000 workers at GM’s Wentzville plant are affected. Meanwhile, a Missouri-based UAW official who was charged with corruption last month has stepped away from the national organization.

Each of the UAW’s three Vice Presidents earned $211,001 last year. UAW membership swelled from 370,239 in 2023 to 375,161 in 2024.

The government said some of the money was funneled to the wife of late UAW vice president General Holiefield. Holiefield negotiated with Fiat Chrysler on behalf of the UAW. He died in 2015.

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. – A former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles human resources director pleaded guilty Friday to covering up a conspiracy to pay off UAW officials, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider ...