"It was worse than I had imagined... I'd never worked in a place so bad, particularly for migrant workers... there was degradation, humiliation, brutality." - Sol Marks, a worker at the Ford Broadmeadows Plant
“When you work on the line it dominates your life. The day is an endless procession of cars moving down the line. You simply can’t afford to get behind and, if you do anything wrong, you cop the abuse of a supervisor or foreman. If they were late for work by only a minute, workers at Ford had to pay a $2 fine. This was a whole hour’s pay!" - Sol Marks, a worker at the Ford Broadmeadows Plant
“Because they can’t speak much English they work underinhuman conditions—companies are absorbing migrant blood and making millions.” - Lokman Kalehsi, a worker at the Ford Broadmeadows Plant
In 1973, at the Broadmeadows Ford Factory in Australia, the workers held a strike to protest the poor and dangerous conditions at the factory. The factory was filled with the toxic fumes of wet paint and other substances, the walls were crumbling, the machinery was broken, and there was no safety equipment.
A poster announcing the Ford Broadmeadows Strike. It helped workers know not to come to work, and to make the public aware of the workers' protesting against Ford's wrongdoings.