He still remembers his first day on the line, vividly. Mullins has worked at Ford for over three years. Not Mullins he would much rather be working.īut he only needed to glance a few feet to the side for a reminder of why he's as determined as anybody to see this strike through. Some of his colleagues were sleepless with excitement the night before the strike began, eager to make history. Eric Mullins, a third-generation UAW worker picketing outside the massive Michigan Assembly Plant near Detroit, wasn't itching to strike.
