POSTCRESCENT.COM FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024 3A APPLETON Appleton police took a man into custody after an armed Wednesday afternoon. Appleton police established a pe- rimeter around an apartment complex in the 1200 block of East Northland Av- enue on Wednesday afternoon and were warning people to stay away from the area. East Northland Avenue was closed at Meade Street to Ballard Road. The Appleton Police Department is- sued a news release around 6:30 p.m. that after continued discussion be- tween the man and crisis negotiators, he left the apartment building.
He was taken into police custody, and taken to a hospital for care, police said. Assistant Appleton Police Chief Todd Freeman told media Wednesday afternoon that police were sent for a welfare check just before midnight Tuesday for a 41-year-old Appleton man who was intoxicated and left his home with a handgun. determined the man head- ed to northern Wisconsin, where local police agencies contacted him by phone. Shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday, the man returned to his apartment and of- were called for reports that he was suicidal, according to the police department.
The man still appeared to be intoxicated and had a gun. When of- arrived on scene, the man made threats to them, which changed the police response from a welfare check to a crime, Freeman said in the news conference, according to a livestream video of the news conference from WFRV-TV. Freeman also said police evacuated other occupants of the apartment complex the best of our Contact Kelli Arseneau at (920) 213- 3721 or Fol- low her on formerly Twitter, at seneauKelli. Man taken into custody following armed at Appleton apartment Kelli Arseneau Appleton Post-Crescent USA TODAY NETWORK WISCONSIN DETROIT The United Auto Work- ers union is on the precipice of poten- tially making history this week as some 4,300 autoworkers at a Volks- wagen plant in Tennessee vote on whether they want union representa- tion. The polls opened on Wednesday morning.
The secret ballot voting, which takes place inside the plant and is run by the National Labor Relations Board, goes until 8 p.m. Friday, with results expected later that night, ac- cording to the NLRB and a Volkswagen spokesman. Labor experts say if the UAW wins at VW Chattanooga, it will be a historic and hard-won victory, after repeated failures over the past decade to orga- nize foreign automaker plants in the South. It would add thousands of members to the union. UAW member- ship is far below its 1979 peak of 1.5 million.
The union currently counts almost 400,000 active members and 580,000 retired members. is a moment for the UAW. A victory really sets a precedent and breaks the glass ceiling that you organize auto factories in the said Harley Shaiken, a labor expert and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. victory automatically translate into a victory at other nonunion auto- makers, but it sets the standard and the momentum. So victory is a huge Just hours before voting was to start, Tennessee Gov.
Bill Lee and other Republican governors in South- ern states with nonunion automakers signed a lengthy letter Tuesday saying they are about the unionization campaign, which they said is by misinformation and scare The letter goes on to insinuate the election of union representation will mean job cuts, stating that unioniza- tion certainly put our jobs in seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in the letter said. we are seeing it in the fallout of the Detroit Three strike with those automakers rethinking investments and cutting The UAW did not immediately re- spond to a request for comment. But in terms of rethinking invest- ments, not necessarily. Days after union members the GM contract, the automaker initiated a $10 billion stock buyback program to cover added labor costs. are nuanced.
GM did say in December it would lay 1,314 em- ployees at two factories in Michigan due to the end of production of two vehicles. GM is retooling one of the plants, Orion Assembly, to build new electric pickups in late 2025. As the Detroit Free Press reported, GM said it will employees jobs elsewhere in the com- pany. At Ford Motor a supplier issue earlier this year forced it to pause pro- duction of the new 2024 Ford F-150 for more than days at the factories that build the pickup, resulting in temporari- ly laying about 5,200 UAW workers. At Stellantis, the company has trimmed its workforce in recent months, but the overall picture is murky because it how many jobs are being eliminated.
The company noted that a round of cuts announced in December for plants in Detroit and Tole- do, Ohio, was smaller than originally described, but a separate round of cuts supplemental workers across company facilities rolled out last month. None of those temporary have overshadowed the driving force behind VW workers signing cards on the website seeking to join the union: The big contract wins against the De- troit Three last fall followed a 46-day strike. The union won members a cost-of- living adjustment, the elimination of wage tiers and bonuses for retirees. Right after the UAW won wage gains of across 4 1 2 -year contracts with the Detroit automakers, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and Volkswagen all of- fered raises of to to their U.S. workforces.
The workforce at VW Chattanooga was one of the at nonunion auto- makers in the country to launch its pub- lic campaign to unionize, with of the workers at the plant signing the cards in December. The UAW has de- clined to say how many employees at the VW factory have signed the union cards, but it has previously stated it wanted of a workforce to sign cards before an organizing committee, made up of plant workers, a petition to take a plant vote. VW broke ground on the Chattanoo- ga plant in 2009 and has invested $4.3 billion in it over the years, a VW spokesman said. The plant assembles the ID.4 EV and houses the Battery Engineering Lab. It also builds the Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport.
Its production supports about 125,000 direct and indirect jobs across the country, he said. The automaker supports right to decide the question of representation and the secret ballot election, the spokesman said, adding that employees already have a strong voice in the Chat- tanooga plant. of being invested in people and their well-being is listening. Everyone has direct access to their manager and our plant leadership is right the fac- tory the spokesman said. BioDerm, Inc.
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LaReau Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK The United Auto Workers union has a history of trying to organize and failing in the South, particularly at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. NICK FILE.
