On November 10, Bob Buford, former president of United Auto Workers Local 2419, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois to one count of mail fraud in the amount of more than $128,000 against the Danville, Ill.-based union. He had been indicted this March following a probe by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards. Local 2419 represents workers at the Danville assembly plant of FreightCar America.
