By Doug Cunningham

A worker fired by Freightliner, but fighting to get his job back was arrested while attending a meeting of his union local over the Presidents' Day weekend. Allen Bradley, one of the "Cleveland Five" UAW members fired after a one-day strike at Freightliner's North Carolina plant, was cited for trespassing. Bradley and the other four workers were on the bargaining committee of UAW Local 3520 when the local decided to reject a contract last year and stage a one-day strike. The one-day strike was not authorized by the UAW International, the workers were fired, and the UAW refused to represent the workers in their struggle to get their jobs back.