At Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant and beyond, a quiet but consequential transformation is underway: the factory floor is becoming a surveillance state, complete with trained dogs, secret service veterans, and zero-tolerance terminations. The United Auto Workers union, rather than standing as a bulwark against this encroachment, has largely served as its endorser — leaving rank-and-file workers to invoke the ghost of Henry Ford's old 'sociological department' as they search for the language to describe what is happening to them. What is unfolding is not merely a security upgrade but a renegotia
Ford deploys K-9 units in Michigan plants as UAW backs expanded security measures
Multiple workers terminated on-the-spot during K-9 searches; workers hospitalized from smoke exposure during wildfire air quality crisis; widespread job losses under zero-tolerance enforcement.