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FILE - In this March 11, 2019 file photo, Gary Jones, president of the United Auto Workers union addresses delegates to the union's bargaining convention in Detroit. An expected guilty plea to corruption charges by former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones has been delayed due to the coronavirus and traveling concerns. Jones was to appear in federal court in Detroit on Thursday, March 12, 2020. He's accused of conspiring with UAW cronies to embezzle more than $1 million. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Ex-UAW president pleads guilty to living high life on dues

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Gary Jones, United Auto Workers President, speaks during the opening of their contract talks with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in Auburn Hills, Mich. Federal prosecutors have charged the former president of the United Auto Workers with corruption, Thursday, March 5, 2020, alleging he conspired with others at the union to embezzle more than $1 million. Jones quit his post in November 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

‘Simple greed’: Ex-UAW leader Jones charged with corruption

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2012 file photo, former President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Owen Bieber, left, with United Auto Workers union (UAW), at the 2012 UAW National Community†Action Program Conference, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, in Washington. Bieber, who led the United Auto Workers union from the auto industry's dark days of the early 1980s to the prosperity of the mid-1990s, has died. He was 90.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies aged 90

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

Retired UAW vice president is the latest to plead guilty

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

In this July 16, 2019, file photo United Auto Workers President Gary Jones speaks during the opening of their contract talks with General Motors in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Gary Jones, UAW president, steps down as GM sues rival over union bribery

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

UAW counters GM’s offer in hopes of a deal

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John Kirk, right, a 20-year-employee, pickets with co-workers outside the General Motors Fabrication Division, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in Parma, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Contract talks continue as GM strike enters fourth week

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

As GM strike continues, talks advance at Fiat Chrysler, Ford

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FILE- In this Nov. 4, 2016, file photo, a Chevrolet Bolt EV battery pack is removed for testing after undergoing charging and discharging cycles at General Motors Warren Technical Center's Advanced Energy Center in Warren, Mich. If U.S. consumers ever ditch fuel burners for electric vehicles, then the United Auto Workers union is in trouble. Gone would be thousands of jobs at engine and transmission plants across the industrial Midwest, replaced by smaller workforces at squeaky-clean mostly automated factories that mix up chemicals to make batteries. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson, File)

GM electric car push could mean fewer and lower paying jobs

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

A worker gives the thumbs-up gesture to a passing motorist as he demonstratives outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Striking workers question whether UAW leaders can be trusted

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 16, 2019, file photo United Auto Workers President Gary Jones speaks during the opening of their contract talks with General Motors in Detroit. A strike against General Motors looms large with just over a day left until the United Auto Workers’ national contracts with the three Detroit automakers expire. The union’s national agreements with GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler end at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Strike looms at GM as UAW extends Ford, Fiat Chrysler pacts

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this July 16, 2019, file photo United Auto Workers President Gary Jones speaks during the opening of their contract talks with General Motors in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

UAW official says contract talks with GM moving slowly

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United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

UAW president joins Labor Day march days after FBI search

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United Auto Workers members and their volunteers stand outside an entrance to the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss., and greet each arriving and departing vehicle, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Union members set up informational lines outside employee entrances at the plant and greeted all shifts of workers reminding them to vote for the union. The vote for union representation of line workers runs Aug. 3-4. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Nissan workers reject United Auto Workers in Mississippi

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

FILE - This sign photographed April 20, 2011, proclaims the location of the Nissan auto manufacturing facility in Canton, Miss. The United Auto Workers union charges Friday, March 3, 2017, that Nissan Motor Co. broke federal labor law hours less than two days before a Saturday rally in Mississippi where U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and others plan to speak in favor of unionization. The UAW says that on Thursday, a company security guard wrongfully stopped workers from handing out literature and asking fellow employees to authorize a union vote outside a gate of the Canton plant. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Nissan accused of wrongly blocking union activity at plant

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

SCANLON: The UAW isn’t dead despite VW loss in Chattanooga

By Terrence Scanlon

News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EST

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In this Feb. 14, 2014, photo, United Auto Workers President Bob King discusses the union's 712-626 defeat in an election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. The UAW on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, filed an objection with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to vacate the result and order a new election. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

UAW appeals Volkswagen workers’ rejection in Tenn.

By TOM RAUM and ERIK SCHELZIG - Associated Press

Protesters rally outside The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse in Detroit, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. The city of Detroit for months has disclosed the awful condition of its finances. Now it&#8217;s up to a judge to determine if the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history really can go forward. An unusual trial starts Wednesday, pitting Detroit&#8217;s emergency manager and his legal team against unions and pension funds that claim the city isn&#8217;t qualified to scrub its books clean under Chapter 9 bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

EDITORIAL: No keys to the factory

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES