{"id":712,"date":"2026-07-27T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:16:36","slug":"the-war-on-the-uaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"The War on the UAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Over the past few years, the United Auto Workers, a union representing workers at auto plants, aerospace manufacturers, universities, and more across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, has undergone a transformation from a demoralized, shrinking union to the vanguard of the fighting wing of the labor movement. Led by president Shawn Fain and his slate of reformers, the union has taken on bold, member-led organizing projects from the historic Stand Up Strike at the Big Three automakers in 2023 to unionizing Southern auto plants, including workers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2024. This dramatic shift was precipitated by a 2020 corruption probe by the Justice Department that resulted in convictions of more than a dozen union officials and three Fiat Chrysler executives on charges including racketeering, embezzlement, and tax evasion, and ushered in a democratic revolution that put Fain at the helm of the 400,000-member union.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=710\">This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal investigation also prompted the district court appointment of a federal monitor to oversee union finances and operations and root out corruption. The court put Neil Barofsky, who co-chairs the monitorship practice at the white-collar firm Jenner &amp; Block but has no prior experience working with unions, in that role. It\u2019s less common for courts to impose monitorships on unions than on corporations, but previous monitorships at the Teamsters and other unions have supervised democratic elections and safeguarded against corruption. Between 2021 and 2025, Jenner &amp; Block billed the UAW more than $25 million for the monitorship.<\/p>\n<p>Fain is currently running for reelection along with the \u201cUnited UAW\u201d slate of 13 International Executive Board candidates. Fain is favored to win, but has faced bruising opposition from candidates including Rich Boyer, the vice president of the Stellantis Department who ran on Fain\u2019s slate in the last election. In 2024, Fain stripped Boyer of some of his responsibilities after finding that he had been too conciliatory in negotiations with the company. Fain\u2019s letter removing Boyer  that he had \u201cagreed to concessions on absenteeism\u201d and agreed to delay the implementation of a profit-sharing agreement, among other strategic disagreements. This prompted Boyer to file a complaint with the monitor, who last month released a report accusing Fain of removing Boyer for retaliatory reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But now Fain claims that the monitor\u2019s inquiry actually stems from a conflict between union leaders and the monitor over the union\u2019s stance on Gaza that has played out quietly over the last two years. Fain and other union leaders had not spoken publicly about this conflict, pursuing a strategy of appeasement with the monitor and fearing legal sanction\u2014until last week, when Fain issued a blistering statement accusing the monitor of election interference for releasing his latest report accusing Fain of improper actions just six weeks before ballots drop in the union\u2019s presidential election. \u201cI\u2019m done being silent,\u201d said Fain. \u201cNeil Barofsky has a political grudge against me because the UAW took an anti-war stance about what was happening in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Also by Ella Fanger<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>The Troublemakers of the Labor Movement Are Still Fighting\u2014and Winning<\/h5>\n<p><span>June 17, 2026<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Meet the Immigrant Workers Who Launched the First Major Meatpacking Strike in Decades<\/h5>\n<p><span>April 3, 2026<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>The Underground Movement to Spark Union Organizing From the Inside\u00a0<\/h5>\n<p><span>March 10, 2026<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fain\u2019s issues with Boyer stem from a core disagreement over how the union should engage with the company, and how to fulfill the reform movement\u2019s promise to reject backroom deals with the bosses. \u201cThe truth when it comes to Boyer is that I didn\u2019t want him running the Stellantis Department because he wasn\u2019t doing a good job for our members,\u201d said Fain in the statement. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t let him hire family members into UAW positions, and I wouldn\u2019t stand by while he bargained concessions with Stellantis and failed to enforce our contract.\u201d Barofsky, however, concluded in the report that Fain did not sufficiently establish that Boyer was \u201cderelict in his duty,\u201d and thus that his removal was justified. He instead found that Fain retaliated against Boyer, abused the authority of his office in matters involving his fianc\u00e9e and her family, and should face possible further disciplinary proceedings. Fain entirely denies these findings.<\/p>\n<p>Union leadership now alleges that Barofsky is overreaching because of a personal political vendetta over the UAW\u2019s call for a ceasefire in Gaza. That conflict dates back to December 2023, when Barofsky called Fain to express his concerns over a statement in which he said, \u201cI am proud that the UAW International Union is calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. From opposing fascism in WWII to mobilizing against apartheid South Africa and the CONTRA war, the UAW has consistently stood for justice across the globe.\u201d According to an audio recording of that call obtained by <em>The Nation<\/em>, Barofsky told Fain, \u201cComparing Israel to the Nazis, to say that they\u2019re acting and engaging in acts of genocide\u2026that does potentially cross the line into the area of antisemitism.\u201d Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib has now called on the monitor to resign, saying in a statement, \u201cNeil Barofsky\u2019s personal support for genocide is irreparably interfering with his duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming presidential election is a referendum on not just how UAW members interpret the drama that has burst into public view in recent weeks but also their faith in the reform movement that has promised to make their union more democratic and more militant. During a Facebook Live stream last week, Fain spoke directly to members. \u201cIf Rich Boyer is your next president, I can assure you one thing. The company will be in heaven,\u201d he said. \u201cThe choice here is between a union that fights or a union that fails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barofsky was appointed as the UAW\u2019s federal monitor in 2020 after the DOJ\u2019s corruption probe cleared out the leadership bench of the union. For years, union leaders enriched themselves with freebies from automakers and lucrative kickback schemes from vendors producing UAW merchandise. A federal court ordered a referendum in which union members voted overwhelmingly to implement \u201cone-member, one vote,\u201d allowing them to directly elect their leadership. In the union\u2019s first-ever direct elections, Fain and the \u201cMembers United\u201d slate, which included Boyer, won office on a platform of \u201cNo Concessions, No Corruption, No Tiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond his mandate to investigate corruption, the recently surfaced recording of Barofsky\u2019s call to Fain and his subsequent actions show that he took issue with the positions on Gaza that the union came to democratically. In November 2023, the UAW\u2019s International Executive Board passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, making it the largest national union to do so at that point. A couple of weeks later, Barofsky called Fain, emphasizing that he was reaching out in a personal capacity. \u201cIn the statement, when you made comparisons to the UAW\u2019s prior statements against fascism in World War II, against apartheid in South Africa and the Contras, it unintentionally\u2014I believe, unintentionally\u2014drew a parallel between the actions of Israel after it was attacked by Hamas,\u201d Barofsky said on the call. Fain said he disagreed with this characterization. \u201cMy problem with this is they\u2019re killing tens of thousands of innocent fucking civilians in the process, and it\u2019s complete bullshit,\u201d he told Barofsky. \u201cOK, so that <em>is<\/em> what your intent was, to compare it to the Nazis,\u201d Barofsky replied.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the call, Barofsky disputed Fain\u2019s claim about Israel\u2019s targeting of civilians. \u201cAs you would say, wholesale killing of tens of thousands of people\u2014which, I think that number is not not accurate\u2014but a lot of innocent people have been killed for sure. Much like you know, 100,000 people were killed in the bombing of Dresden during World War II by the Allies. And that\u2019s not to excuse it, but it is an aspect of war,\u201d said Barofsky. By the end of December 2023, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported that approximately 21,800 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli strikes. \u201cWhatever you want to say about Israel, if they wanted to commit genocide, it wouldn\u2019t look like this,\u201d Barofsky continued. \u201cGenocide looks like what Hamas did, right?\u201d He told Fain that his children had been traumatized by Students for Justice in Palestine protesters on college campuses in New York City \u201cchanting \u2018gas the Jews.\u2019\u201d  \u201cAnd if you look at the photographs, they\u2019re holding UAW signs while they\u2019re chanting that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you use language like that and are making those types of comparisons, you risk crossing a line,\u201d Barofsky said. Before ending the call, he added, \u201cThis is not a monitorship thing. I just want to make that any more clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, Barofsky forwarded to the union\u2019s board a letter he had received from the Anti-Defamation League expressing concerns about a pro-BDS statement issued by UAW 7902 in New York, composed of NYU and New School lecturers and teaching assistants. Barofsky acknowledged that the issue was outside of his jurisdiction, but said that he felt it was important to send along \u201cgiven the serious concerns raised here.\u201d Benjamin Dictor, an attorney working with the UAW, said in an email to Barofsky that same month that he was improperly inserting himself into the union\u2019s political stances. Barofsky\u2019s firm, Jenner &amp; Block, is listed by the ADL as one of its \u201cCorporate Partners Against Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the initial call was calm in tone, if politically charged, tensions between Barofsky and Fain erupted at a February 2024 International Executive Board meeting in Detroit, which Barofsky dialed into from Switzerland. According to previous reporting on the meeting by <em>The Detroit News<\/em>, Barofsky denied that he had used the word antisemitic or suggested as much about Fain during the phone call. As the now-public recording of the call shows, Barofsky did in fact say that Fain\u2019s statement \u201cpotentially [crossed] the line into the area of antisemitism.\u201d During the board meeting, Fain took offense to Barofsky\u2019s mischaracterization of their call, and replied forcefully. He said, \u201cFor anybody to ever fucking say I\u2019m antisemitic, brother, I\u2019ll fight your ass in front of this building in a heartbeat.\u201d Barofsky replied, \u201cI don\u2019t think that you\u2019re antisemitic.\u2026 I have no reason to think that you\u2019re antisemitic.\u2026 And if you heard that or perceived that, I\u2019m really sorry that that happened. But I\u2019m very careful in my wording, and I would never have said something like that, even if I did believe it, and I did not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=708\">This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: The Passion of Amiri Baraka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fain said during the meeting that he had been rattled by Barofsky\u2019s call. \u201cYou\u2019re the monitor over us,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have a realm of power over us. So yeah, it concerned me greatly.\u201d Cathy Highet, a board member of the Association for Union Democracy who represented Teamsters members during their union\u2019s federal monitorship, said Barofsky\u2019s promises that he was calling in a personal capacity were hollow. \u201cThis is someone who has the power to investigate officers and try to tee them up for removal,\u201d she said. \u201cSo if somebody with that sort of power \u2018suggests\u2019 that you do something, that is exercising his power. You can\u2019t take that hat off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days after the February board meeting, Barofsky opened his first investigation into Fain over a complaint from the union\u2019s secretary-treasurer, Margaret Mock, who alleged that Fain had stripped her of some of her responsibilities for retaliatory reasons. Mock ran on Fain\u2019s slate in 2022, but had since chafed with the union\u2019s new leadership. According to a thorough account by labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein in the <em>New Labor Forum<\/em>, Mock angered Fain\u2019s staff by delaying approvals for organizing-related expenses, and denying reimbursements for petty charges like a $151 pizza bill. Mock told Fain she was running a tight ship to avoid even the appearance of corruption. But comments she has made suggest that her hostility also stemmed from resistance to the new leadership of the union, many of whom were hired from outside of the union\u2019s membership. \u201cI am totally against hiring anybody from outside. We have hundreds of thousands of members,\u201d she said according to minutes from a February 2024 Executive Board meeting. \u201cSo I take offense that our people aren\u2019t qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the first months of Fain\u2019s tenure, Mock tried to pressure the union to hire her son into the Stellantis Department, which Fain blocked. On the Facebook Live stream last week, Fain said that vice-president Boyer had confessed to going along with Mock\u2019s request because she had refused to approve shelving and furniture for his office if he did not. \u201cSo why doesn\u2019t the monitor investigate that?\u201d Fain asked. In February 2024, the executive board voted to strip Mock of 11 departments under her supervision due to a report from the UAW\u2019s compliance officer asserting that she had used her authority to \u201cdelay, obstruct, or even block the work of other departments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Months later, Boyer tried to have his grandson hired into the UAW\u2019s security staff, which Fain also blocked. In text messages between Boyer and Fain from May 6, 2024, a screenshot of which was obtained by <em>The Nation<\/em>, Boyer threatened to make a complaint with the monitor. \u201cCompany disrespect me. You disrespect me what does a man do [sic],\u201d Boyer wrote. \u201cMy grandson.\u201d He continued in another text, \u201cI\u2019m sitting at home thinking about what I tell Monitor on Wednesday. Mad as hell.\u201d Fain wrote back, \u201cI haven\u2019t disrespected you, trying to do the right thing, that\u2019s what we campaigned on and ran on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barofsky\u2019s most recent report stems from a complaint filed by Boyer alleging that Fain improperly removed him from his responsibilities overseeing the Stellantis Department. In May 2024, Fain removed Boyer, alleging that he concealed bargaining concessions during the 2023 Stand Up Strike and agreed to delay profit-sharing payments for supplemental workers, among other bargaining issues. In his letter removing Boyer, Fain  him of \u201cagree[ing] to watered-down language in private\u201d and \u201callow[ing] the company to backtrack on what they actually agreed.\u201d The UAW constitution grants the president the power to remove an officer from a department if he determines they have been derelict in their duties. In the following months, Fain took a more aggressive approach to dealing with Stellantis management, threatening a nationwide walkout. In December 2024, Stellantis\u2019s CEO abruptly resigned and the company ultimately reversed a decision to lay off about 1,100 employees at an Ohio Jeep plant.<\/p>\n<p>To investigate Mock and Boyer\u2019s complaints, Barofsky conducted extensive interviews of UAW staffers and officers, dissected internal texts and e-mails, and dug into the minutiae of internal union decision-making. In the ensuing two years, he released a series of reports excoriating Fain for his decisions and actions. In 2025, after Barofsky threatened to take charges against Fain to the Trump Justice Department, union leaders negotiated a de facto agreement to mend the relationship with the monitor wherein Fain would return Mock and Boyer\u2019s assignments, and Fain\u2019s chief of staff, Chris Brooks, would resign.<\/p>\n<p>That fragile d\u00e9tente was broken with the release of the monitor\u2019s June 2026 report. In it, Barofsky argues that Fain fired Boyer in retaliation for Boyer\u2019s refusal to intervene in a workers\u2019 compensation claim filed by the sister of Fain\u2019s fianc\u00e9e and refusal to approve a bonus for workers at the Stellantis National Training Center where Fain\u2019s fianc\u00e9e works. \u201cI never sought special favors for anybody in my family,\u201d said Fain in the Facebook Live stream. \u201cIf Rich was honest, he would tell you himself he\u2019s tried to get his daughter and grandson hired by the international union. I blocked these requests time and again, because it goes against everything that we ran on.\u201d The Department of Justice has reportedly opened a grand jury investigation into Fain\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Highet sees much of the material in the latest report as potentially out of the bounds of the monitor\u2019s court-ordered authority. \u201cThe monitor has the authority to investigate allegations that\u2026officers are engaging in corruption,\u201d she said. \u201cBut not\u2026to enforce the union\u2019s constitution outside of the context of corruption.\u201d In one illustrative example, Barofsky dismisses Fain\u2019s concerns that Boyer made substantial concessions to management in negotiating Stellantis\u2019s absenteeism policy. Barofsky acknowledges that Boyer made such concessions, but writes that this alone does not prove the \u201cdereliction of duty\u201d that Fain claimed to have Boyer removed. According to Barofsky\u2019s reading, Boyer would have acted improperly only if he had hidden the concessions from the President\u2019s Office. Barofsky finds that Boyer made Fain and his staff aware of the concessions as he was negotiating them, and thus was not derelict in his duty. But Fain has made it clear that the concessions themselves <em>are<\/em> the point, as they demonstrate that Boyer was undermining his administration\u2019s agenda, which pushed for a more aggressive bargaining approach. \u201cWhat Fain is saying is he wanted Boyer to be more aggressive against management, and that\u2019s the sort of thing that elections are supposed to decide,\u201d said Highet. \u201cHow aggressive are we? How conciliatory are we?\u2026 That\u2019s outside the scope of the monitor\u2019s authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another example, Fain took issue with Boyer\u2019s decision to hold the annual meeting of the Stellantis Council, the body that coordinates bargaining at Stellantis, in Puerto Rico, despite the fact that the UAW does not represent any Stellantis workers on the island. Prior to Fain\u2019s tenure, holding union meetings in resort locales had been common. In his letter removing Boyer, Fain wrote that this decision \u201chas continued to haunt [the union] in our new organizing drives, where anti-union employers have repeatedly thrown it in our face\u2014just as [Fain] predicted they would.\u201d But Barofsky concludes that Boyer\u2019s decision to hold the conference in Puerto Rico was \u201cthe result of good-faith reliance on UAW guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that while there was some negative press around the conference, \u201cit does not appear to have been widespread.\u201d The conference was held in the midst of a major (and ultimately unsuccessful) organizing drive at Mercedes-Benz in May 2024. Leading up to the Mercedes vote, the anti-union Center for Union Facts unleashed an advertising campaign against the UAW\u2019s organizing in the South, placing billboards in cities emphasizing the union\u2019s past corruption scandals. Following the Stellantis Council meeting, the Center published a mock-up postcard with Shawn Fain\u2019s face reading, \u201cGreetings from Puerto Rico!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When ballots drop in the presidential election in late August, we will find out whether Barofsky\u2019s reports have undermined members\u2019 support for Fain\u2019s leadership. On the Facebook Live stream, Fain argued that the ultimate winners in the clashes between his reform movement, other union leaders, and Barofsky are the bosses. \u201cThey want to go back to the old way of doing things, just kissing ass and writing paychecks. They don\u2019t want a UAW that\u2019s fighting back.\u201d Now that he\u2019s gone public with his conflict with the federal monitor, Fain says there will be more to come. \u201cWith this latest action, I am done being silent. The membership deserves to know what the hell is really going on here,\u201d said Fain. \u201cAnd if Rich Boyer is your next president, I can assure you one thing. The company will be in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=706\">What J.M. 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