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Originally Posted by Arnulfo
Had an acquaintance that worked at the van nuys plant. Same stories about the drinking ,pot smoking and sabatoge . Said all the line supervisors were also high and were the major suppliers of pot. I am a proud union man. IBEW. I was taught as an appprentice that you ALWAYS gave an honest 8 hrs work for 8 hrs pay. No goofing around. Anything less amounted to theft and hurt the union as a whole. Those UAW run plants in Cali are what gave unions a bad rap.
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it wasn't just the CA plants. Local GM plant was notorious for a "nose candy" problem and it was common local knowledge that the "best stuff" came from the GM plant. A months long DEA/federal investigation resulted in numerous arrests and convictions and it was discovered that one of the guys caught in the round-up was one of the largest coke importer/dealers in the Southeast. His job was driving a large floor sweeper/mopping machine and used his position as a way to "distribute" product throughout the plant to his "resellers."
The UAW got most all of them their jobs back afterwards.