The Toledo Jeep complex, which makes all the world’s Wranglers and Gladiators, is on “emergency” status with employees working mandatory ten-hour shifts six to seven days per week. One employee interviewed by WTOL Channel 11 said that he had worked three and a half weeks straight, including Saturdays and Sundays, ten hours per day.
The natural result of this, despite safety protocols, has been greater injuries. The station claimed that an internal memo showed 25 of 87 Stellantis North America injuries in the past three weeks came from Toledo; the memo urged workers to take caution and prevent accidents and injuries.
The factory is on emergency status to make up for weeks of downtime when a local supplier’s facility caught fire.
One Chrysler retiree pointed out that long hours of nonstop work were a hazard of the bust-and-boom auto industry, and said the longest stretch of 12-hour-days with no breaks was 67 days. “We used to call it ‘going zombie,’” he wrote. “We had people who could work 12 hours a day for months.”
Source: WTOL, Toledo Channel 11
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