NPR is reporting that workers at the Stellantis Jeep plant in Ohio say they face “a highly uncertain future, with little faith that their new record contracts, achieved after a painful six-week strike, will keep their jobs intact.”
Jim Cooper, a team leader at the Toledo Assembly Complex where UAW workers assemble the brand’s Wrangler and Gladiator models, told NPR, “This is the lowest morale has been in the 11 years that I’ve been here.”
According to the story, Cooper said old-timers at his plant have warned their coworkers for years that if wages rose above a sustainable level, the company would move jobs to Mexico, a threat he and others shrugged off. But now, Cooper says, “I could see it.”
NPR reports scheduled overtime at the facility “has fallen dramatically.”
“My checks are smaller than they were before the strikes,” Cooper reportedly said.