Anonymous American Machinist 02-01-2001 Union president su for defamation Byline: Anonymous Volume: 145 Number: 2 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: 02-01-2001 Page: 54 Type: Periodical Language: English 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 in no degree known a superintendent to mistreat employee - to abuse employee like Dave Shepard." It also said,