Restaurants, food banks and fellow union members are stepping up to help feed workers who are off the job. In the Detroit area, striking UAW members are being offered discounts at Olga’s Kitchen, a chain of fast casual restaurants focusing on Mediterranean specialties. The Yale Hotel, in Yale, Michigan, is offering free meals to striking UAW members and their families on Thursday nights. “A lot of our members have never really experienced solidarity like they are now.”Other union locals are pitching in to help food drives for the striking GM workers. UAW Local 2000, which represents Ford workers at the Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, asked its members to support a food pantry for striking members of UAW Local 1005, in Parma, Ohio.

Source: Forbes October 06, 2019 17:03 UTC