Detroit's Water and Sewage Department announced that workers who struck will face a five-day suspension, but will not lose their jobs. The union leaders who helped to organize the protest will face ten-day suspensions. The department says that the strike was illegal and endangered public safety, but workers say that they had to do it. A new proposal will eliminate 81% of the workers in the department, and a judge ruled last year that the department could ignore union contracts, purchasing rules and the city charter.
See "Detroit sewage plant workers face suspension over walkout", John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, October 8, 2012