Column: ‘Historic' UAW strike, indeed — Jeep workers strike in Toledo is somehow a first

Willys Overland (later Jeep Parkway) plant 1908-2001 — Willys Overland (later Jeep Parkway) plant, 1908-2001.

Larry P. Vellequette

September 17, 2023 04:31 PM

TOLEDO — The UAW's first simultaneous strike against all of the Detroit 3 is certainly historic, but here in the town where Jeep was born and helped win a World War — where 5,800 workers walked off their jobs at midnight Friday — it is doubly so.

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