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Fiat Chrysler Pleads Guilty In UAW Corruption Case
Law360 (March 1, 2021, 7:56 PM EST) Fiat Chrysler formally pled guilty Monday in Michigan federal court to conspiring to violate federal labor law by giving millions of dollars in illegal payments and gifts to senior United Auto Workers officials to curry favor during collective bargaining.
FCA US LLC s guilty plea, made during a video conference hearing with U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman, is part of a deal the U.S. Department of Justice announced in January in which the automaker agreed to pay a $30 million fine and cop to conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act, by funneling more.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, now Stellantis, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act in the UAW corruption investigation.
Sen. Paul, Rep. Wilson Introduce National Right to Work Act
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) introduced legislation that would ensure that all American workers can “choose to refrain from joining or paying dues to a union as a condition for employment.”
Their proposal, the National Right to Work Act of 2021, repeals six provisions of current federal law and regulation that grant labor unions the power to collect mandatory membership dues from all employees in a workplace covered by a representation agreement.
Twenty-seven states have adopted right-to-work laws since they were authorized by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, but the federal government hasn’t followed suit, despite a 1988 Supreme Court ruling in Communications Workers of America v. Beck that workers can’t be required to join a union as a condition of employment.
Feb 23rd, 2021 4 min read
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John is Vice President for the Institute for Constitutional Government and Director of the Meese Center for Legal & Judicial Studies. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the press before departing the White House in Washington, DC, for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 16, 2021. NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Since taking office, and to the delight of liberals, Biden has fired several of former President Donald Trump’s executive branch appointees.
Back in 1987, then-Sen. Joe Biden was a strong supporter of the reauthorization of the Ethics in Government Act, which created independent counsels.