The union reported legal fees in 2022 for several ex-International Executive Board members stemming from the corruption investigation: $16,490 for former President Ray Curry, $127,854 for retired Vice President Cynthia Estrada, $7,705 for retired regional Director Ronald McInroy and $825 for former Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel. The union ended 2021 with $1.045 billion in net assets, down 3.8% from where it stood at the end of 2021. The dissidents that have taken over the union following its first direct election of leaders have promised to fight for benefits lost for new hires during the Great Recession and for the union's reputation hampered by a years-long corruption scandal. The rhetoric he and other new members of the International Executive Board used last week at the union's quadrennial bargaining convention point to an aggressive posture for the contract talks that will have implications for the treatment of workers at electric vehicle parts and assembly plants as well as product allocation and job security for workers making gas-powered vehicles, engines and transmissions. In a one-sentence statement on Tuesday, newly elected UAW President Shawn Fain simply said: "We're just getting started." UAW membership has ebbed and flowed over the last decade or so, reaching more than 430,000 members in 2017. The additions, however, still weren't enough to return the union to the more than 397,000 members it had at the end of 2020.
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