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UAW Names Dittes to Head Troubled FCA Unit
The United Auto Workers union’s executive board has named Terry Dittes as vice president in charge of the department that represents members who work for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, effective immediately.
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The United Auto Workers union’s executive board has named Terry Dittes as vice president in charge of the department that represents members who work for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, effective immediately.
Dittes succeeds Norwood Jewell, who retired at the end of last month—six months before completing his first four-year term. Dittes will stand for reelection by the union’s membership in June.
The union will make several other management changes next summer as it strives to overcome a scandal involving Jewell’s predecessor, the late General Holiefield. Federal investigators named Holiefield as a key player in an alleged misuse of some $4.5 million in worker training center funds at FCA.
Since then, U.S. prosecutors have indicted four people in the probe. They include Alphons Iacobelli, FCA’s former top labor negotiator, who later became executive director of labor relations at General Motors Co.
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