Abstract
News of connections between unions and organized crime, racketeering, and other sordid activities has waned in recent years. However, organized labor is far from squeaky clean in the twenty‐first century. As many Management Report readers may be aware, a former United Auto Workers vice president was recently charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud. Federal prosecutors have also charged the former UAW president and several others with embezzlement of more than $1.5 million in union funds that was spent on “lavish lifestyles.” The allegations about the UAW are so complex that the U.S. Attorney's Office has recently suggested that federal oversight of the UAW is not out of the question—a drastic measure most recently seen in the recently concluded government regulation of the Teamsters.
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