Tens of thousands of GM, Ford and Stellantis workers have voted to strike the Big Three automakers when their contract expire three weeks from today on September 14 at 11:59 pm.
The death of Thomas "Tank" McAuliffe is only the most recent in a string of tragedies at Sterling Stamping and other Detroit area auto plants during the pandemic.
A worker said that rather than send workers home to allow them time to grieve, management actually increased the speed of the production line following McAuliffe’s death.
Caleb Dye’s death was a preventable tragedy, under conditions in which management, the unions and the political establishment have allowed COVID to spread uncontrolled in workplaces and schools.