AutoWorkers Back Call after an independent examination of the death of the Dundee engine worker Ronnie Adams

Auto porker reacts enthusiastically to the demand for an independent examination of the death state Dundee Dundee, Ronnie Adams Sr., who was squeezed to death on April 7 when repairing machines.

A month after the death of Adams, family and employees in the dark remain the circumstances of this tragedy. The family has not yet received a death certificate from the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner. Neither information was communicated by the investigators of the UAW, plant management or state security behavior.

The work in the small town of Dundee, west of Monroe in the southeast of Michigan, is currently being converted for the production of a new generation of gas -powered, hybrids and electrical vehicles.

Ronald Adams, Sr. and Shanaia with some of the children in their mixed family [Photo by Family of Ronald Adams, Sr. ]

Colleagues say, Adams, a 19-year-old plant veteran, is very viewed in the facility and is known as a pronounced lawyer for security at the workplace. They said that management routinely ignored complaints about uncertain machines in the system.

Common security committees from UAW management are known for taking the management side of management and usually shifting the blame for deaths or injuries to the back of the workers. Studies by the state security authorities such as work and security administration (Oscha) are usually white laundry. Even in cases where fines are raised, they are usually only token amounts and are often reversed in the appeal procedure.

This was the case during the death last summer by Anthony Gaston, who was crushed to death during work in the Toledo Jeep meeting complex. The Osha made a fine of only 16,000 US dollars for uncertain conditions that contributed to Gaston's death.

In addition, the OSHA is broken down by the massive cuts of the Trump government and the billionaire, Elon Musk.

Therefore, if the truth is to be uncovered, it is up to the rankings to take the initiative.

Shanena Stewart Adams, Ronnies widow, told him World Socialist website:

If we do not speak against these companies, other families will lose their loved ones.

An experienced Detroit Autoworker who followed the case on the WSWS made the following explanation:

Brother Ronald Adam's death is a tragedy that all union workers feel the deepest sympathy. Security in the workplace must be the highest priority, including consciousness, training and transparency. Brother Adam's family deserves the full cooperation of the company and the IUAW [International UAW, the union’s top leadership]But unfortunately this was not the case.

Therefore, a complete investigation of the circumstances that deal with this heartbreaking accident by an employee committee must be carried out. A complete report on the facts with complete transparency, which are divorced by the cover-up company and the cooperation between the company companies, must be rendered. Brother Adam's family asks to know the truth, and workers from all over the world are in line with their demands to know the truth.

Many Sterling Height (Shap) employees, who spoke to WSWS reporters during their shift change on Thursday afternoon, were aware and concerned about Adam's death. Many pressed despised UAW officials, including UAW President Shawn Fain, to enable management, kill and violate employees.

“You can pass out and you will roll them aside to keep the line going,” said a worker in the second shift as he hurried through the turnstile. Another explained that Stellantis recently put a new mechanical system in part of the system, “and even if the qualified trades locked out the area, the management could handle it and the machine could still work, even if someone was there.”

Another worker looked at the picture of Adams and his family and said:

That's awful. He had a woman and children. None of this should happen. Everything we want to do is able to get home every day as we came in.

Another designer said:

An examination must be carried out. If there was something suspicious, it has to be looked in.

When another worker said the UAW stone the family, he said: “This is what they always do. The UAW wants to protect its own back.”

An experienced research worker with more than three decades in the plant told her experiences:

A few years ago, some of us were brought in to clear the cells [a caged area with automated machinery] Because they were full of soot and fat and oil. It was during the downtime on the weekend. The floors were garbage and they had to put on their dog and pony show for someone of companies [coming to the plant].

A guy comes and switches on the hand door and says: “You are easy to go.” About an hour later, an experienced trades said that knew us personally and had worked with us for a long time: “What are you doing there? This is not excluded?” He said, “Let me get that.

Nobody had his key. The first man just opened the cell and said that the performance had been cut off to the system. I claimed it sideways in mind, something sounds suspicious, but we don't know that we don't have this depth of the depth. We only said the management that they should clean it, right? And the man told us that it is locked up and I don't think it was.

What if the strength suddenly left it? What if someone didn't know that we were around the corner, worked on the equipment or handle this robot or sponsor? What if we wiped it down and wiped it and didn't know that we were there?

We dusted it because they wanted to look as clean as possible for the tour group, which normally gets through. So, yes, we could have been killed. You want to protect yourself from what could happen. Ronald Adams must have believed that he was safe. But it could have been like us until we were told that we shouldn't go there again.

Workers speak with WSWS reporters in Sterling Heights' assembly work

The security committees of the UAW position are like a buffer between yes and no. Between GO and no-go. But I noticed with this company that they always like to point their fingers to the worker. You want to put the fire after it started. You do not make any preventive maintenance at all.

How long will it take for someone else to be injured or killed because they assume that it is okay or is being rushed? It is difficult that these qualified trading workers are divided into different areas. They are always in a kind of thinking and problem shoes of the system. There should be a kind of buddy system. Place one at the gate, one on the door, one on the closure, and another person was able to do the work. What they call “spotters”. What is so difficult about it?

She discussed how decades of concessions of the UAW had severely undermined security, and said she saw that qualified traders work a lot on their own.

We are more or less a sweatshop here. When I started here in the nineties, the union always came up and asked us what the management was doing and what we needed the union. Now the union goes to management first and then we are immediately accused of what they want to accuse. Or the union will say: “The company can.”

You know, I say: “Wait a minute, I pay union fees.” I don't understand. The union officers embezzle all the money that should be for training in safety and other things. You just took it. We never got it back.

They used it to buy luxury shoes for their women and their lovers. I went up to Black Lake [UAW resort in Michigan]And I found one of these shoes in the sand. I don't know how this woman lost her shoe, but she said, “Give me that, that belongs to me.” It must have been one of these $ 1,000 shoes per pair, and she thought I would probably sell it.

A younger worker said about the formation of a ranking committee to investigate Ronnie Adams' death:

I don't see anything about that. We would have said more what's going on instead of leaving it up to the powers that it is. I have the feeling that our word doesn't even count.

Take a look at the contract we have just received. Many of us agreed with “no”, but somehow it still has passed. I would like to see that more power comes back to people.

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