Auto workers at a Stellantis/Chrysler parts distribution center near Orlando International Airport walked off the job at noon Friday, joining over 18,000 other union auto workers employed by the Big Three automakers across the United States. [content-1]
The Orlando warehouse, with a workforce of nearly 80 workers represented by the United Auto Workers, is the only location on strike for hundreds of miles around.
They haven’t struck in over 15 years, according to several longtime workers Orlando Weekly spoke to on the picket line. And that last strike lasted maybe six hours — not even long enough for second-shift workers to join in.
Orlando Weekly was the first media on the scene of the strike, and was able to speak to several strikers in the moments that they left the building and lined up, signs in hand, along Boggy Creek Road. We went back out on Saturday to check on the workers we spoke to on Friday.
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