Autoworkers voice support for Volvo strikers, oppose company-UAW strikebreaking: “All autoworkers should be on strike to support them”
Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago responded with outrage upon learning of the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to shut down the five-week strike at Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia. Although workers voted down a third tentative agreement last Friday, the UAW is forcing workers at Volvo’s New River Valley plant to vote on the exact same agreement again this Wednesday and has told them the company will impose the deal no matter which way they vote.
Autoworkers voiced their solidarity with Volvo workers against the attempted strikebreaking by the company and the UAW, and support is growing throughout the auto plants for a united struggle with the Volvo workers, who, like autoworkers in the Midwest and elsewhere, are fighting against substandard pay and benefits, attacks on retirees, the elimination of the eight-hour day and other major conce
Deaths of three Detroit-area autoworkers reflect deepening social crisis
The last several days saw the deaths of three Detroit-area Stellantis workers in tragic accidents that reflect the deepening social crisis, more than one year into the pandemic.
On Friday morning, a 49-year-old worker at the Stellantis Jefferson North Assembly Plant on the city s east side died when her car was struck by a train as she left work at 3:00 in the morning. The railroad crossing is adjacent to the plant entrance and is not protected by crossing arms.
A Stellantis Warren Stamping worker was found dead in a locker room at the plant Thursday evening, apparently of a drug overdose. Warren Commissioner Bill Dwyer said the 56-year-old Chrysler worker was one of three overdose deaths in the city that night. Heroin was apparently found on the scene.
Jeep’s Mack Avenue Assembly Plant Gets a New Lease on Life
TheDetroitBureau.com
More than just “another” place to find news, reviews, spy shots, commentary and features about the auto industry, TheDetroitBureau doesn’t stop with the press releases or confuse a few lines of opinion with insightful, in-depth reporting.
Contact Us
Like what you see? Have some ideas for making The Detroit Bureau.com even better? Let us know, we’d love to hear your voice.
Please leave this field empty.
home > news > Automakers > Jeep’s Mack Avenue Assembly Plant Gets a New Lease on Life
Jeep’s Mack Avenue Assembly Plant Gets a New Lease on Life
DBusiness Magazine
Land of Opportunity
Can a red-hot industrial market in the region, driven by nearly unsatiable demand for mobility, e-commerce, and R&D facilities, finally bring about a renaissance in Detroit?
Fair Deal: An architectural rendering of Amazon’s Detroit Fulfillment Center to be built on the site of the former Michigan State Fairgrounds near Woodward Avenue and Eight Mile Road. // Courtesy of Amazon
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-21 directing all “Michigan businesses and operations to temporarily suspend in-person operations that are not necessary to sustain or protect life.” The downside of the order reverberated throughout the state’s economy, resulting in bankruptcies, a sharp runup in unemployment filings, an exodus from offices and schools, and a resulting patchwork of dozens of controversial and conflicting regulations.