Despite a 6 percent drop in membership in 2021, the UAW saw its total assets increase, as it hoarded its strike fund by isolating or blocking a series of walkouts and other struggles.
What was left unstated in Tavares’s comments are the disastrous conditions which have driven absences from work, above all, the explosive spread of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.
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Crane operator crushed to death at Stellantis Sterling Stamping Plant in suburban Detroit
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On Wednesday, crane operator Terry Garr died in an industrial accident at the Stellantis Sterling Stamping Plant north of Detroit. The death was acknowledged earlier on Thursday in brief statements by Stellantis and the United Auto Workers.
Sources from inside the plant reported to the
World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter that Garr was crushed by a heavy die towards the end of his shift. This was confirmed later in the evening by a police report obtained by the
Detroit
Free Press.
Employees at Sterling Stamping Plant remove a minivan roof after it has been stamped in a 180-inch Transfer Press (Stellantis Media)
Michigan’s worst-in-the-nation COVID-19 outbreak is beginning to slow auto production.
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DETROIT (AP) Michigan’s worst-in-the-nation COVID-19 outbreak is beginning to slow auto production, with a major Ram pickup truck plant reducing its output because of a high number of absent workers.
About 10% of the production work force at the Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler) assembly plant in Sterling Heights, north of Detroit, either tested positive or is on quarantine, a person who has been briefed on the situation said Friday. That is equivalent to about 600 workers, said the person, who asked not to be identified because neither the company nor the United Auto Workers union is releasing details.