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With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...
...people with a special bond. Muscle and Blood is best when Rachel Scott is mad, and I get mad, too, when I think not only of the slaughter but of the suicides, of James Johnson who was massacred. He murdered himself, just like the terminal alcoholics in Hamtramck and the junkies on the line in Lordstown and the men who drive like hellfire out of company parking lots and snuff themselves out on their way home from work. These figurative suicides are as important as the murders, and have to be dealt with first. Otherwise things are never clear except...
...when Ronald Tucker, a young black worker at the Hamtramck plant declared that he wanted to "tell the world that they're [the union] selling us [the workers] down the river," several older picketers turned to each other and laughingly noted that "he's only been here [at the plant] four months...
There are many women on the line at the Hamtramck plant--the oldest of Chrysler's Detroit area facilities--and three currently hold the position of foreman. The UAW contract with the company does forbid women from lifting heavy items, which severely limits the number of jobs they can have. So most of the women who work on the line are in the trim shop, paint shop, or final shop...
...they [the men] treated you like a queen. Now they figure you're here to make a living just like they are." Bullington, who checks the cylinder numbers and puts locks on the doors of the cars, said that she was "really scared" when she first came to the Hamtramck plant, but that her apprehension wore off rapidly...