Bad Optics: UAW Uses Nonunion Labor To Build Retired President's Home

[TexasTowelie]

Talk about poor optics.

The United Auto Workers is using nonunion labor to build a lakefront home on Black Lake, near Cheboygan for retired President Dennis Williams, a money saving move, reports Robert Snell of The Detroit News:

"Interviews with contractors and bid documents help pinpoint the original cost of a construction project being built amid an FBI investigation into whether union leaders' have spent membership dues and money from Detroit's automakers on personal luxuries...

"The UAW has provided homes at Black Lake for generations of retired presidents, but the Williams home is the first being built during a federal investigation into union spending."

To save money, the union has hired a nonunion electrician, a nonunion excavation company and is in talks to hire a nonunion plumber to work on the three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, 1,885-square-foot stone home at the UAW Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Snell reports. The 1,000-acre retreat in northern Michigan is financed with interest from the union's $721 million strike fund, which is bankrolled by worker dues, Snell notes.

Read more: http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/20925/bad_optics_uaw_using_nonunion_labor_to_build_retired_president_s_home

[INdemo]

1. The UBC (Carpenters Union) shhould have had picket lines set up

days ago. If for no other reason than just to shame the UAW. It would get local news attention.

[MichMan]

2. Where is the giant inflatable rat?

[MichMan]

3. Why does a retired UAW president get provided a home anyway?

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The UAW is in the middle of a huge investigation for its leaders conspiring with FCA officials to embezzle $$$ from the joint training center. They have already convicted several and more ate likely still coming out.

This couldn't have come out at a worse time from a PR standpoint.

[blueinredohio]

4. Shame on them. I hope they get called out big time.

I'm a member but absolutely do not agree with this.