Three months after protests occurred from North Central Building Trades labor unions and the United Auto Workers, work for the Academy Chrysler build in Tipton has moved from non-union labor to union labor.
In July, the North Central Building Trades and UAW held protests denouncing the use of non-local and non-union labor being used to build Academy Chrysler, which would sell union-made vehicles and be located across the highway from the FCA US Tipton Transmission Plant, a union factory. The unions took issue with that, while dealership owner Rex Gingerich said he instructed the general contractor for the site to use only local union labor. However, that wasn’t being done.