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Autoworkers speak out against 84-hour workweek for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant: “It seems like torture” This week, Stellantis began its Alternative Work Schedule (AWS) for skilled tradespeople at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) north of Detroit. This brutal schedule, also known as 12/7, entails 12-hour workdays for seven days straight with no overtime pay, followed by seven days off. The AWS at the plant is the first of its kind for skilled trades in the auto industry, made possible through concessions granted to the company by the United Auto Workers unio...

Stop Stellantis and UAW’s conspiracy to abolish the 8-hour day! The Sterling Heights Assembly Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls on autoworkers to oppose the impending imposition of a 12-hour 7-day (12/7) work rotation at the plant. We call for the rescinding of the 12/7 schedule and the reinstatement of the principle of the eight-hour day for all workers, the payment of time and one-half after eight hours and for Saturday work. Management must immediately fill all vacancies in skilled trades to end their overwork. The new hires should come, in the first place, from among qualified produc...

Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly workers call for fight to defend the eight-hour day Opposition is growing among autoworkers against the move by Stellantis, in league with the United Auto Workers, to impose a 12-hour, seven-day work rotation for skilled trades at the giant Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) in the north Detroit suburbs. Management has announced it plans to impose a new work schedule starting April 5 that would have four alternating skilled trades crews working seven-day, 12-hour shifts over a two-week rotation. The new mandatory schedule eliminates overtime pay after ...

With a 12-hour, seven-day schedule at Sterling Heights Assembly, UAW repudiates long battle for eight-hour day The drive by Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler) to impose a 12-hour, seven-day schedule for skilled trades at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) near Detroit, with the support of the United Auto Workers (UAW), has evoked broad anger. Workers rightly see the new schedule, set to begin on April 5, as a move to eliminate basic rights, such as the eight-hour day, won by workers in over a century of struggle. Workers at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (Source: Stellantis Media) T...

Fiat Chrysler forced to abandon plans for 84-hour workweeks for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant Detroit A worker at FCA’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan (Credit: FCA) The new schedule, known as “12/7,” would have seen skilled tradesmen at the plant work 12- hour days, seven days a week, followed by a week off. The brutal and unsafe new schedule was designed to minimize staffing issues caused by significant numbers of COVID-related vacancies, which the company has left unfilled, even as the plant has run at virtually full capacity during most of the pandemi...