WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers (UAW) will directly elect officers after members voted in a referendum that was required as part of a 2020 Justice Department settlement to resolve a corruption probe.
U.S. District Judge David Lawson in Detroit on Tuesday approved the results of the referendum and ordered the change by June, which will be in time for the next union election cycle. The union in 2020 also agreed to an independent court-appointed monitor as part of the Justice Department settlement into allegations that resulted in the convictions of two former UAW presidents, among others.
(Reporting by David Shepardson)
