United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain is blaming Stellantis for the death of a Worker forced to leave its Belvidere, Illinois Plant and relocate to their Toledo, Ohio Plant where he was killed on the job.

The UAW will fight, and if necessary, Strike Stellantis if the company breaks its new Union contract by not reopening and expanding the Car Plant at Belvidere, Fain promises.

The UAW President told former Belvidere Workers, Retirees, community members and allies from all over Central Illinois and elsewhere the Strike would invoke one key win in the new pact: Allowing strikes over grievances and investment commitments - or lack of them.

Whatever happens with a possible Strike it is already too late for the Worker killed on the job at the Stellantis plant in Toledo.

Antonio Gaston, 53, died a horrible death on the job at the Jeep Factory there.

Gaston was never supposed to be in a situation where he could be killed at the Toledo plant.

He and his family were ripped out of their normal life near the Illinois Plant when Stellantis shut down operations there and he was transferred to Toledo.

The Toledo resident was working in the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex that builds Gladiator pickups when he was killed.

The father of four, who had worked at Belvidere before being sent to the Toledo Plant, had been doing his normal work, handling materials and deliveries to the assembly line where other Workers used them to put together the vehicles.

UAW Local 12 said Gaston was caught on something and that they were investigating, according to Local 12 President Bruce Baumhower.

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