A court-appointed monitor overseeing the operations of the United Automobile Workers union is investigating disputes involving the union’s president, Shawn Fain, and two U.A.W.
officials who say they were improperly stripped of duties.
The monitor, Neil M. Barofsky, also accused the union on Monday of a “lapse in cooperation” with the investigation, saying it had taken months to turn over relevant documents and then provided only a small fraction of those requested.
The union declined to comment.
That process also resulted in the union’s first election of a president by a vote of the full membership — balloting that elevated Mr. Fain, running as an insurgent candidate, to the top job in a runoff last year.
Persons:
Shawn Fain, Neil M, Barofsky’s, Fain
Organizations:
United Automobile Workers, Department
Locations:
Michigan