•From Chairman Mike Bullock: Ten more employees will be recalled for June 1st. Everyone up to seniority date 9/22/1999, SSN 3800. These are temporary job opportunities. Also, a reminder that Thursday and next Tuesday are VR blackout days.
•Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the “Battle of the Overpass”, which saw Walter Reuther, among other UAW organizers, brutally beaten by “security” thugs hired by Henry Ford. News photographers documented the event, although most were also attacked and had their equipment confiscated or destroyed. Detroit News photographer James Kilpatrick offered useless photographic plates to Ford’s men and hid the good ones under his car seat. Those are the pictures everyone is familiar with and which caused the creation of a Pulitzer prize for photography.
•From the USA Today: The government on Tuesday raised the death toll from what could be Toyota unintended acceleration crashes to 89, but emphasized the incidents haven't been verified. In an update, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it now has 6,200 reports of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles from 2000 through May 20. Those include allegations of 71 crashes in which 89 people are said to have died. That's up 71% from NHTSA's previous report that it had allegations of 52 deaths resulting from Toyota unintended acceleration. Safety consultant Sean Kane, often hired by lawyers suing car companies, says the numbers might be a lot higher. He says, "Incidents reported to NHTSA usually represent only a fraction of the total" and that Congress has reports of "nearly 38,000 potential" acceleration incidents involving Toyota vehicles, much higher than NHTSA's 6,200.
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