Watch factory workers party with beer and marijuana... then go back to building airliner roofs and military vehicle parts



After a hard morning building parts for U.S. military Humvees and airliner roofs, the workers at Tower Defense and Aerospace in Detroit, Michigan, take a much-needed lunch break and wind down.



But video footage reveals that at least 17 of them chilled out a little too much. They walked to a nearby grocery where they downed beer and toked marijuana.



Then, after an hour, the employees went right back work making important components for machines that troops and air passengers will entrust with their lives.



Caught: Several employees were captured on video smoking marijuana on their lunch breaks

Party: Other employees tipped back booze before they returned to work operating heavy machinery on the factory line in Detroit

WJBK Fox 2 in Detroit caught the workers partying with booze and drugs out in the open as they waited to go back to work.



The employees usually sat in the parking lot of a nearby grocery store within sight of the factory.



The plant where they work makes parts for armored military Humvee trucks and Stryker infantry carriers. The factory also produces molds used to make roofs for Airbus A330 airliners, which carry up to 335 passengers.

Tower Defense and Aerospace officials suspended the workers after the video aired.

Hard at work: These are employees of Tower Defense and Aerospace, which makes molds for airliner roofs and parts for Humvee military vehicles

Off the job: All of the employees in the images were suspended until the company could work out the details with the union to fire them

The company said it has to to go through the proper procedures with the labor union before the employees can be fired.



Tower officials say they maintain a drug and alcohol-free shop, but not everyone appeared to be free of substances as they operated the heavy machinery to build the sensitive military parts.



The CEO of the company said that behavior will end now: 'We are working with the union to ensure that workers will no longer be allowed to leave the premises during the work day,' a statement read.



Precious cargo: Up-armored Humvees have become the primary fighting vehicle of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

'These actions supplement the existing rigorous drug screening and background checks used by Tower to hire 150 new employees since acquiring this business.'

Tower International, a publicly-traded company, bought the defense plant this year.



'None of the suspended employees were hired by Tower; all were inherited in the acquisition,' President and CEO Mark Malcolm said in a statement.











