Federal raids on the homes of United Auto Workers leaders and properties owned by the union have thrusted the union's collective bargaining with the Detroit automakers this year into unprecedented territory.
Whether the raids unearthed damaging evidence against current union officials is arguably irrelevant for this year's negotiations, according to Art Wheaton, a labor expert with the Worker Institute at Cornell University.
"The federal investigation swirling around the contract makes getting that contract ratified much more difficult," Dziczek said. As part of the union's collective bargaining, rank-and-file members vote to approve each tentative agreement reached by bargaining committees for the automakers and union. Historically, the process has gone smoothly with union members voting to support the leadership-approved contract.
One longtime local UAW official and former bargainer who asked not to be identified due to the fear of repercussions described workers on the factory floor as "disappointed," "angry" and distrusting of "anybody involved in the process.", condemned the raids as unnecessary, citing the union and its leadership "have always fully cooperated with the government investigators in this matter.
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