By Doug Cunningham

Hercules Steel company in Livonia Michigan continues to lock out members of UAW Local 174 - legendary labor leader Walter Reuther's home local.
The workers there say the owners of Hercules Steel are using scabs to try to bust the union and want to gut the entire collective bargaining agreement - including seniority rights and the disciplinary procedure the union has in place. The UAW has had a contract with Hercules Steel since 1965.