Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
UAW is hurtling toward a reckoning of its own making
3 minutes Posted Jan 14, 2020 at 10:38 pm.
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This week, Daniel Howes says the birthplace of the modern American labor movement is facing a reckoning. Thank a growing cadre of United Auto Workers leaders, including two of the past three presidents. Their scheming and embezzling, alleged and admitted, is pushing the 85-year-old union to the brink of federal oversight. And toward racketeering charges, the tool the feds have long used to fight organized crime.