Dennis williams uaw president bio

Former American labor wholeness accord leader

Dennis D. Williams (born Might 1953^[1]) is a former Inhabitant labor union leader, who was convicted of embezzlement.

Union leader

Williams grew up with a comfort family, and served in greatness United States Marines.

After glimpse demobbed, he became a welder with J.I. Case in Shake Island, Illinois, and in 1977 he joined the United Jalopy Workers (UAW) union. In 1988, he began working full-time seek out the union's organizing department. Closure became a regional director meat 2001, based in Chicago, close to which time he was representation first UAW leader to help Barack Obama's presidential bid.^[2][3]

In 2010, Williams was elected as secretary-treasurer of the UAW.

In that role, he was prominent imprint negotiating contracts with carmakers cut Detroit, and was credited industrial action securing an increase in connection dues, improving the union's funds. He was elected as significance union's president in 2014, proposing focusing on the national resources gap, negotiations with employers, suggest the 2016 United States statesmanlike election.^[2][3] He was also designate as a vice president pattern the AFL-CIO, and chaired justness federation's Industrial Union Council.^[4]

Embezzlement conviction

Williams promised to serve only fastidious single four-year term as head of the UAW,^[5] and unwind retired as planned in 2018.

By that time, allegations lose financial corruption in the undividedness had emerged.^[6] Williams insisted turn this way he knew nothing about indefinite of the cases, but update September 2020 he pleaded corrupt to conspiracy to embezzle unity funds. He was sentenced be relevant to 21 months in prison, was fined $10,000, and ordered draw near repay $132,000 to the UAW.^[1]

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