TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo police have been called for issues at Jeep's Toledo Assembly Complex this week as tensions run high in the sixth week of the United Auto Workers strike against Detroit's Big 3 automakers.
From 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Toledo police report that officers were called numerous times to the Jeep plant for traffic issues at the plant entrance.
"Officers responded and helped facilitate the flow of traffic," according to the report from police. Officers spoke with both striking workers and people at the plant about the issue, according to the report.
Striking workers who saw an unusual number of vehicles entering the plant early Wednesday raised the alarm that non-union replacement workers were arriving. Union officials and Stellantis officials later said the workers were hired by a third party to do work inside the plant, but they were not there to replace striking UAW workers who assemble vehicles.
Shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday police were called again when one of the striking workers on the picket line was struck by a car at the entrance to Mobis North America, 3900 Stickney Ave. Police said the man was not seriously injured and a report had been filed.
An around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, police were called after passing motorists reported that their vehicles were hit with eggs.
Police said a 51-year-old Toledo man and a 38-year-old Toledo man both reported that a woman on the picket line threw the eggs at their cars, according to the report.
Officers who responded spoke with Studge Parham, a union steward on site, who told them he didn't know who threw the eggs.
Hopes were raised late Wednesday that an end to the strike may be near as the UAW reported it had reached a tentative deal with Ford. The contract still must be ratified by UAW membership and also the union has yet to reach new agreements with General Motors or Stellantis, which owns the Toledo Assembly Complex.
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