The Detroit News reports that UAW President Shawn Fain’s chief of staff has stepped down, after a federal monitor found he was involved in making false allegations against the union’s Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock.
Ms. Mock, who was previously stripped of a number of her responsibilities, will have her departmental duties restored, according to a recent report filed by the monitor.
The paper reports other changes are also in the works:
- UAW Vice President Rich Boyer will be restored to the leadership of the Stellantis Department
- Communications Director Jonah Furman has been disciplined
- The union’s Compliance Department will no longer report to Fain
The court-appointed federal monitor, attorney Neil Barofsky, reported his office uncovered a scheme in which the UAW chief of staff colluded with compliance director Marni Schroeder to falsify allegations of misconduct against Ms. Mock.
Schroeder resigned earlier this year after being confronted with evidence that text messages sought by the monitor had been deleted from her phone.
President Fain had previously refused to implement the monitor’s recommendations regarding Mock’s oversight of 11 union departments.
Fain faces a re-election campaign later this year.
The monitor also found evidence that 123 texts were deleted from Fain’s phone covering time periods under investigation by the monitor. The texts included messages to a regional director at the union.
“Neither official was able to provide a credible explanation for these deletions, which followed a pattern of selective deletion rather than wholesale removal of conversation threads,” monitor Barofsky wrote in his most recent report.