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Chrysler's UAW Jeep workers taped drinking, smoking pot
See the Video: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/09/detroit-tv-station-catches-chrysler-workers-drinking-drugging-during-lunch/1?loc=interstitialskip
Chrysler's UAW Jeep workers taped drinking, smoking pot
10:03 AM
Chrysler may have accepted millions in a federal bailout to stay in business, but now it has a scandal on its hands because of carloads of dope-smoking, beer-drinking workers on a shift break near a Detroit plant. WJBK Fox 2 News in Detroit caught dozens of Chrysler auto workers drinking alcohol and smoking what appear to be joints during their shifts at the automaker's Jefferson North auto plant in Detroit. The full video from WJBK is here.
President Obama, left, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne with a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee during Obama's visit to the Jefferson North Chrysler plant in Detroit on July 30.
CAPTION
By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
The plant, which builds the new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was visited by President Obama just two months ago.
The investigation started five days after the president's visit. The cameras caught workers leaving on their half-hour lunch break to head to the liquor store, and take off to a nearby park. The cameras even followed them into the liquor store to confirm the bottles in the bags were actually alcohol.
When the reporter approached the workers, asking them about their lunchtime partying, they dashed into their cars and drove away.
Chrysler saw the videos before they ran on TV. Some of the workers have already been suspended without pay. What the company says:
"I'm very, very disturbed about what I just saw in the video and I want to make it clear that we at Chrysler take it very seriously," said Scott Garberding, senior vice president of manufacturing. "For us this behavior is totally unacceptable and will be dealt with swiftly."
We know assembly jobs are hard work. But the real crime here -- other than that apparently a UAW worker can't be fired for BCWI (building cars while intoxicated) -- is how many people in hard-hit, high-unemployment Michigan would do just about anything to get one of those jobs.
Drug and alcohol use on assembly lines, unfortunately, is nothing new. In Ben Hamper's 1992 book, "Rivethead," he admits he drank heavily while working on a GM line. Workers often took naps on the plant floor, he said.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/09/detroit-tv-station-catches-chrysler-workers-drinking-drugging-during-lunch/1?loc=interstitialskip
Chrysler's UAW Jeep workers taped drinking, smoking pot
10:03 AM
Chrysler may have accepted millions in a federal bailout to stay in business, but now it has a scandal on its hands because of carloads of dope-smoking, beer-drinking workers on a shift break near a Detroit plant. WJBK Fox 2 News in Detroit caught dozens of Chrysler auto workers drinking alcohol and smoking what appear to be joints during their shifts at the automaker's Jefferson North auto plant in Detroit. The full video from WJBK is here.
President Obama, left, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne with a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee during Obama's visit to the Jefferson North Chrysler plant in Detroit on July 30.
CAPTION
By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
The plant, which builds the new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was visited by President Obama just two months ago.
The investigation started five days after the president's visit. The cameras caught workers leaving on their half-hour lunch break to head to the liquor store, and take off to a nearby park. The cameras even followed them into the liquor store to confirm the bottles in the bags were actually alcohol.
When the reporter approached the workers, asking them about their lunchtime partying, they dashed into their cars and drove away.
Chrysler saw the videos before they ran on TV. Some of the workers have already been suspended without pay. What the company says:
"I'm very, very disturbed about what I just saw in the video and I want to make it clear that we at Chrysler take it very seriously," said Scott Garberding, senior vice president of manufacturing. "For us this behavior is totally unacceptable and will be dealt with swiftly."
We know assembly jobs are hard work. But the real crime here -- other than that apparently a UAW worker can't be fired for BCWI (building cars while intoxicated) -- is how many people in hard-hit, high-unemployment Michigan would do just about anything to get one of those jobs.
Drug and alcohol use on assembly lines, unfortunately, is nothing new. In Ben Hamper's 1992 book, "Rivethead," he admits he drank heavily while working on a GM line. Workers often took naps on the plant floor, he said.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/09/detroit-tv-station-catches-chrysler-workers-drinking-drugging-during-lunch/1?loc=interstitialskip
The US government (you know, that used to mean you and me) still owns them. And people wonder why all the recalls???? No wonder they needed bailing out.
I agree. These guys should have been turned in and then the company should have fired em. I wonder if they are still working there?
And to think there are so many people out of work that seem to want a real job
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