{"id":382858,"date":"2018-10-29T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uaw-building-luxury-cottage-for-ex-president-dennis-williams\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:47:32","slug":"uaw-building-luxury-cottage-for-ex-president-dennis-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uaw-building-luxury-cottage-for-ex-president-dennis-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW building luxury \u201ccottage\u201d for ex-president Dennis Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UAW building luxury \u201ccottage\u201d for ex-president Dennis Williams<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Shannon Jones<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Reports that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is building an expensive, luxury retreat for former union president Dennis Williams are compounding already boiling worker anger over exposures of rampant corruption in the UAW leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Several top UAW officials have already been convicted in the scandal involving the siphoning off of millions of dollars from union-management joint training funds into the pockets of union officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Detroit News<\/em>, the UAW is building a 1,885-square-foot three-and-one-half bath lakefront \u201ccottage\u201d at the union\u2019s Black Lake Conference Center in northern Michigan. The residence designated for the use of Williams will feature granite countertops, a wood-burning fireplace, stainless steel appliances, a wine cooler and a patio overlooking Black Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Blueprints filed with Cheboygan County in 2017 indicate that the \u201ccottage\u201d will also feature a stone veneer and an aged metal roof. The kitchen will feature cherry cabinets with a \u201cchocolate glaze finish\u201d and walls covered with \u201cwhite cedar shiplap.\u201d There will also be a hidden storage closet in the master bedroom, a feature sure to raise eyebrows given the large amounts of misappropriated funds pocketed by UAW officials.<\/p>\n<p>The initial cost of the project was pegged at $285,000, a likely gross underestimate given the expensive finishing. A building contractor contacted by the <em>World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter<\/em> said, \u201cI read the <em>Detroit News<\/em> report on Williams\u2019 lake house. $285,000 for an 1,885 square foot house might be appropriate for a worker\u2019s cottage that was finished with asphalt shingles, vinyl siding, modest windows, and laminate countertops. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/29\/lake-o29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UAW building luxury \u201ccottage\u201d for ex-president Dennis Williams By Shannon Jones 29 October 2018 Reports that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is building an expensive, luxury retreat for former union president Dennis Williams are compounding already boiling worker anger over exposures of rampant corruption in the UAW leadership. Several top UAW officials have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}