Emotional autoworkers cross striking janitors' picket lines in Flint [View all]
Source: Detroit Free Press
Phoebe Wall Howard,
FLINT — In an emotional scene Sunday morning, UAW autoworkers passed picketing janitors represented by the same union just hours after the maintenance workers went on strike in an escalation of already-tense contract talks.
"This isn't what solidarity looks like," one autoworker said as he dropped off food to the janitors before reporting for his shift, which started just before 7 a.m.
The autoworkers are General Motors employees and the UAW told them to report to work Sunday even though the union's contract with GM expired at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. The union's leadership was to meet at 10 a.m. Sunday in Detroit to decide on next steps.
The janitors work for Aramark, with which GM contracts for maintenance at five plants in Michigan and Ohio. About 850 UAW-represented Aramark workers sent on strike at midnight.
Striking janitors, who work for Aramark and are UAW members, picket outside General Motors’ Flint Assembly Plant early Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (Photo: Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press)
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2019/09/15/uaw-autoworkers-striking-janitors-flint-gm-contract-talks/2333546001/
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