AFL-CIO’s Shuler ‘Disgusted’ by UAW Corruption, Mulled Removal

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said she and other union leaders considered expelling the United Auto Workers from the labor federation during a corruption scandal that felled the union’s leadership.

Shuler revealed during an interview on Freakonomics Radio, published online Wednesday, that AFL-CIO officials had internally discussed severing ties with the UAW but ultimately decided against it after the U.S. Department of Justice got involved. The UAW last year entered into a federal consent decree that installed an independent watchdog and proposed changes to the way the union elects leaders.

Shuler’s remarks show that labor leaders were more worried than ...