UAW President Shawn Fain on Friday said ahead of the union's 12 p.m. EST deadline: "Ford is showing that they're serious about reaching a deal, at GM and Stellanis, it's a different story."
“Only a right-wing nutcase, according to the Times, would imagine that policymakers and their media boosters would overreact to the latest round of Covid infections,” scoffs City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald.
Consumers looking to buy a car are already dealing with an array of mounting pressures, from higher car prices to skyrocketing interest rates and now, plant strikes that threaten to push costs higher than ever before.
US automakers and union negotiators offered little hope a deal would be reached on Thursday to avoid a midnight walk-off that would be the United Auto Workers' first-ever simultaneous strike against the Detroit Three carmakers.