For the first time, the UAW is on strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers at once. Workers at three plants have been called out so far, with more to follow Friday if there's no progress on a deal.
While it's too early to say whether the strategy will work, Loomis says momentum appears to be on the side of the union, with companies having to guess which part of their supply chain might be hit next.Conserving the $825 million union strike fund
GM has warned it will lay off 2,000 workers at a plant in Kansas early this week because it lacks components supplied by GM's Wentzville, Mo., plant, which is on strike. "Nobody really wants to be on the picket line for months on end," he says."Really long strikes do not generally win.""We're going to keep hitting the company where we need to, when we need to," he said.Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as workers everywhere are demanding higher wages
"A strike is not an indication of an impasse," explains Sharon Block, executive director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
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