Fiat Chrysler got better contracts than competing carmakers by bribing union officials. The added labor expenses increased GM’s costs by billions of dollars, the company says.The company’s “commitment to justice includes a responsibility to expose corruption in our industry when we learn of it and seek damages when we are targeted and directly harmed," it said in a statement Friday. “Not pursuing justice rewards wrongdoers at the expense of honest, hard-working people."U.S.
District Judge Paul Borman in Detroit on Tuesday told Barra and Fiat Chrysler’s Mike Manley to talk in person by July 1 to try and resolve the lawsuit that he called a “waste of time and resources" during the coronavirus pandemic.