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Having been forced to accept direct elections, the Solidarity House apparatus was determined to organize it in a way to prevent the participation by the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file workers. It has sought to confine the vote largely to the bureaucracy itself.

Workers at the Stellantis Mack Avenue plant in Detroit say there is great interest in the campaign of Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman in his campaign for UAW president.

The automaker has had an independent investigation conducted that found a high frequency of odor concentrations coming from Mack Assembly Plant.

New Ducting Could Stem Stinky Stellantis

State and federal environmental agencies have detected elevated levels of certain chemicals around the Stellantis Mack Assembly plant on Detroit’s east side. But those chemicals don’t appear to be at levels high enough to negatively impact human health, officials said at a presentation to community members Thursday night.

Stellantis NV is preparing for a $900 million retooling of its Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit, where it plans to build the Dodge Durango and next generation Jeep Grand Cherokee this spring.The investment, announced by the automaker in 2019 with the $1.6 billion construction of Mack…

Since Stellantis launched production at the Detroit Mack Assembly plant in March 2021, some nearby residents on Detroit’s east side have complained of strong, caustic paint odors. Some say it’s affected their quality of life.

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Stellantis has announced Detroit’s Greenest Initiative, part of a three-year, $1 million effort to support east side neighborhoods.

View Comments Peaceful protesters on Thursday crashed a Stellantis NV announcement for a $1 million investment seeking to make the east Detroit neighborhood in which it built its new Jeep assembly plant the greenest in the city. Roughly a dozen residents of Beniteau Street and demonstrators with the Detroit Peoples Platform carried signs and chanting "Beniteau cant breathe" during the morning news conference that included the planting of a disease-free elm. They alleged environmental racism b...