Ray Holman, legislative liaison for UAW Local 6000, remembers back to the bad old days in the 1990s when General Motors threatened to pull out of Lansing. It took a coalition of labor, business and government leaders such as then-Mayor David Hollister to save the day. MessageMakers in Old Town is currently producing a documentary about how this unique collaboration saved thousands of autoworkers jobs in the community (click here to see the trailer).
To honor that history, Capitol Cadillac has placed a Cadillac ATS at the Capitol Region International Airport this summer, to let visitors know that Lansing is still a GM car town. The Cadillac ATS has been named Car of the Year.
In this brief YouTube, Holman wonders whether the outcome would be the same if similar problems occurred today. Or would today’s current climate of polarization derail opportunities to work together to solve our problems?
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