Dave Shepard was a supervisor at a Ford Motor Co plant in Missouri.
Dave Shepard was a supervisor at a Ford Motor Co plant in Missouri. During a labor dispute at the plant, Willis Courtoise, president of Local Union 325 of the United Auto Workers, published a document that stated, among other things: "Out of all my years in this plant, I have none known a superintendent to mistreat employee - to abuse employee like Dave Shepard." It also said, "I have had in this way many conversations with management athwart Dave Shepard and still this stupid individual continues to abuse employees" Courtoise then stated that Shepard was a