Join auto workers Tuesday, June 16 at a demonstration to save jobs in front of GM Headquarters/Renaissance Center from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm.
American Axle CEO Dick Dauch and former Governor of Michigan, John Engler will be addressing the National Business Summit at the same time.
A picket in front of the Renaissance Center will be followed by a Hart Plaza.
The picket and rally is being organized as part of the People's Summit, a 4-day tent city at Grand Circus Park organized by Detroiters in protest of the National Business Summit, a meeting of CEOs and heads of corporations from across the country being held in Detroit. Workshops at the tent city will be held after the rally.
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Why we're going to rally and attend the People's Summit
I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new friends at The People's Summit. We'll share food, laughs, and ideas about how we can fight to win."
--Gregg Shotwell, author of Live, Bait & Ammo, Delphi retiree
We were told April 29, before the concessions vote, that there were no additional plant closings. On April 30 Chrysler and the Auto Task Force told our elected officials that our plant was not closing. One day later in bankruptcy court Chrysler announced that ours was one of eight plants that would be discarded as "bad assets." We were double-crossed! I'm joining the Autoworker Caravan at the Peoples Summit to say "No human being is a bad asset.
--Martha Grevatt, Executive Board Member, UAW Local 122
I'm going to be downtown Tuesday afternoon June 16, at 12:00 pm, because we need a new trade policy, a new industrial policy, a new health care policy for the 21st Century. It was Labor who pulled us out of the Great Depression, it was Labor who built our infrastructure and it's Labor who is going to pull us out of the latest Economic Crisis--so why are we treated like the enemy?
--Jim Theisen, Chrysler worker
