Mandatory overtime leading to exhaustion, injuries at Jeep plant, union officials say

Union officials representing workers at the Toledo Jeep plant say mandatory overtime is increasing workplace injuries caused by employee exhaustion.

Stellantis, Jeep’s parent company, says a fire in Carey, Ohio, at CSP, one of Jeep’s suppliers, prompted the company to begin running the Jeep plant on an accelerated production schedule known as “emergency status” in order to make up for production lost because of the disruption in the supply chain.

A spokesman for Stellantis, Ann Marie Fortunate, confirmed that the Toledo Assembly plant was “running emergency plant status to make up for production that was lost because of the CSP fire this summer.”

Stephen Hinojosa, a stock driver at the Jeep plant who sits on United Auto Workers Local 12’s education committee, said some workers are putti