Rory Gamble had early dreams of making the pros as a defensive tackle, but his father suggested a good job in the factory when it was clear NFL recruiters wouldn’t be calling.
No one ever expected that the welder repairman from Detroit one day would be in a position to help save the influential UAW labor union from ruin.
Gamble, 65, went from keeping an assembly line running years ago to keeping the nearly 400,000-member organization running today as a man drafted to be president during a crisis of rampant corruption and criminal convictions.
In a series of wide-ranging interviews with the Free Press, Gamble and others, including the former U.S. Attorney who took on the union, and top leaders of the Detroit Three automakers talked about Gamble’s role in steering the UAW during its darkest moment, a situation more tenuous than many may have realized, and its prospects for the future.
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