UAW Local 659 president Steve Gruener is saying that three UAW picketers were hit by a truck outside the Customer Care and After Sales plant in Swartz Creek.
For the first time in about a decade, the United Auto Workers are on strike at General Motors. Workers at more than 50 locations across the Midwest and southern states walked off the job Sunday after a vote to strike.
Six years after its Dort Highway companion was reduced to rubble, the Delphi Flint East (formerly A.C. Spark Plug) facility on Center Rd is following suit -- see photos and video of the ongoing demolition here.
Even though it was just announced that Flint Delphi East will be shutting down completely in November, UAW Local 651 President Art Reyes says it's far from over.
Thousands of union workers are flooding Lansing today including busloads of workers from Flint and Genesee County to oppose the 'Right To Work' bill that is being pushed through the state government. President Barack Obama is one of the latest people to oppose the bill in Michigan.