DETROIT – A group of United Auto Workers who were recently laid off held a protest Saturday outside Solidarity House.
“Shawn Fain lied to us, and as a result, Stellantis fired us,” Ashley Wilmoth said.
Wilmoth was one of 539 supplemental, or temporary, Stellantis employees laid off in Metro Detroit earlier this year.
Since the new UAW contract was ratified, 2,800 temporary employees have been converted to full time and around 1,800 temporary employees were let go.
“The company is looking at it as, ‘OK, this is a way to get back some of that money Shawn Fain took from us,’” said Brian Keller, who was recently laid off from Stellantis.
The group of protesters said they are mad at the auto companies, but furious with union leadership.
“We were all paying union dues and we are not receiving any form of representation from our union apparatus,” Wilmoth said.
The UAW had no comment in response to the protest.
