As the November 18 deadline for returning ballots approaches, supporters of UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman appealed to Detroit-area Stellantis workers to assert their right to vote amid reports that many UAW members have not received ballots.
Under conditions where virtually all COVID-19 mitigation measures have been eliminated, Detroit area auto and auto parts makers are finding it ever harder to recruit temporary workers at poverty wages to staff plants.
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.