| The Militants' Victory at the UAW Over the past four years, the United Auto Workers''once the most influential and progressive union on the planet''has shown clear signs of reviving some of its past glory and moxie. In recent decades, the union's once-stellar record had been tarnished by the declining fortunes of America's three legacy automakers (GM, Ford, and the renamed Chrysler, now doing business as Stellantis) and the concomitantly paltry contracts the union had bargained, by the UAW's inability to unionize the foreign-owned auto plants spread across the South, and by the spending of union funds on the semi-lavish lifestyles of some union officers (including two past presidents), a number of whom have served time in federal pens for their misdeeds. As a result of those felonies, the union reached a court settlement that brought its internal workings under the oversight of a court-appointed monitor, who four years ago shifted the union's process of electing its officers from the delegated conventions it had been holding since its founding in 1936 to elections by the rank-and-file membership. |
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At prospect.org from The American Prospect
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