United Auto Workers Launch “Limited, Targeted” Strike

The New York Times reports:

Members of the United Auto Workers began a strike Friday at three plants in the Midwest, walking out amid a contract dispute over pay, pensions and work hours at the three Detroit automakers.

The strike of each of the three Detroit automakers is not a full-scale walkout by the union’s roughly 150,000 members, but a “limited and targeted” work stoppage that could expand if talks remain bogged down.

The workers’ four-year contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis — which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram — expired at midnight Thursday, with the two sides far apart. The union, which is negotiating separate deals with each automaker, has never before staged a strike against all three companies at once.

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BREAKING: United Auto Workers will strike Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis.

Thousands of autoworkers will hit the picket line and shut down key plants across the country.

After two months of negotiations, the giant car companies failed to meet @UAW‘s demands. pic.twitter.com/gc89teyACF

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