DETROIT — The UAW in 2021 spent more cash on authorized charges for fewer officers than it did in 2020, in response to an annual monetary report filed Thursday with the U.S. Division of Labor.

The union disclosed it spent $36,069 on authorized charges for President Ray Curry, and $113,016 on authorized charges for outgoing Vice President Cindy Estrada, who heads the union’s Stellantis division.

The union in 2020 paid out practically $30,000 in authorized charges for 4 officers: $10,888 for Area 8 Director Mitchell Smith; $10,718 for Area 9A Director Beverley Brakeman; $6,683 for Curry; and $1,210 for Estrada.

Each figures are nonetheless considerably smaller than what the UAW spent on Ex-President Dennis Williams, who’s now in jail for embezzling cash from the union. In 2019, the UAW paid $320,912 in authorized charges defending Williams and $24,599 for defending Ex-President Gary Jones, who can be in jail.

All advised, 16 people have been charged — and 16 have pleaded responsible — within the U.S. authorities’s ongoing UAW corruption probe that has resulted in a six-year interval of oversight for the union.

In keeping with the UAW’s annual report, Curry collected complete compensation, together with bills, of $272,726 in 2021 after being elevated to president following the early retirement of his predecessor, Rory Gamble.

Estrada, who introduced her impending retirement final month, collected complete compensation of $319,321 together with the authorized charges; Vice President Terry Dittes, who additionally just lately introduced an impending retirement, made $238,144; Secretary-Treasurer Frank Stuglin made $209,842; and Vice President Chuck Browning made $208,924.

The UAW’s internet property rose barely in 2021 to just about $1.1 billion, up from about $1 billion in 2020. The union’s strike fund, tapped into throughout a 40-day walkout at Common Motors in 2019, rose barely to $815 million from $790 million a 12 months in the past, in response to a union spokesman.

Earlier this week, forward of the report’s launch, Curry reported that membership fell roughly 6 p.c to 372,254 final 12 months. He attributed the dip to the end-of-year timing of the report, since payroll and dues processing was delayed by end-of-year downtime or momentary layoffs due to the semiconductor scarcity.