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Michigan Chamber of Commerce's Complaint Against UAW

14 December 1998

UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ruben Burks Comments On the Michigan Chamber of Commerce's Complaint Against UAW Michigan V-PAC

    DETROIT, Dec. 11 -- UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ruben Burks,
Chair of the UAW Michigan Community Action Program (CAP), issued this
statement regarding the Michigan Chamber of Commerce's complaint alleging that
the UAW Michigan Voluntary Political Action Committee (Michigan V-PAC)
violated the Michigan Campaign Finance Act.
    "The Michigan Chamber of Commerce's complaint against UAW Michigan V-PAC
has no merit whatsoever.
    "Both UAW Michigan V-PAC and UAW V-CAP, the UAW's federal political action
committee, have complied fully with both the letter and the spirit of state
and federal election laws as well as with generally accepted accounting
principles.
    "The Michigan Chamber either doesn't understand our state's campaign
finance law, or it is willfully misrepresenting the law.  Either way, this
groundless complaint is simply the latest cynical tactic in the Michigan
Chamber's ongoing attack on the right of working men and women to participate
in the political process."