Rory Gamble
, who took over a UAW rocked with a corruption scandal and facing an uncertain future just 15 months ago, said this week that not only did he prove his skeptics and doubters wrong, but he's proud to be turning over a clean union to his successor in 2022.
Gamble took over the top spot in November 2019
from Gary Jones, one of two now-disgraced former UAW presidents awaiting sentencing in the corruption scandal that rocked the 400,000-member union. Fifteen people, including both former UAW officials and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executives, have been convicted.
"My administration was met with a lot of skepticism. There were a lot of articles written about things I was doing along the way that said it was too little, too late and the UAW was pretty much dead and you can write them off," Gamble said this week in a video interview with the Automotive Press Association in Detroit, his first with the group since becoming president.