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summer of strikes, tonight united autoworkers could be the next ones walking off the job. the union authorizing a strike against ford, general motors, and stellantis. a strike isn t guaranteed, but now the union has the green light to strike if needed. demands including a nearly 50% pay bump, traditional pensions and the right to strike over plant closures. we went backwards in wages and conditions, and so they re signaling that they re tired of it. reporter: negotiations coming as the industry moves toward an electric future. for the big three, they need those profits in order to fund the development of electric vehicles. it takes fewer people to build an electric vehicle than it does an internal combustion engine vehicle. when uaw s contracts expire mid-september, roughly 150,000 workers could strike nationwide slamming the brakes on production. not ideal if you re looking for a new car. our supply is going to last for a couple of months. reporter: in the chicago suburbs, car
i ve been traveling across the state for the last four months, talking to people all over michigan and learning from them about what they want and where they feel they are not represented. they feel like they want new leadership. they want a fresh voice, and leadership that leads with empathy, with support, but most importantly putting people first, powered by the people. today was our launch day to travel across the state. we launched detroit, to a few thousand people, i believe, and then we were in pontiac, michigan, a place that suffered plant closures and people trying to suppress unions, and then we re coming from grand rapids where people come with a big overflow crowd waiting for us to speak there. it s been an amazing day because it reinforces how much people really want true democracy. they don t want washington deceive picky picky who the next senator is. they want to do that here in michigan. when you say that, that sort of makes me think he might be talking about the
Stellantis began to indefinitely idle its Belvidere Assembly Plant on Tuesday and lay off over 1,300 remaining workers, destroying their lives and uprooting families. The emptying out of the plant will also have devastating ripple effects on the already economically ravaged areas surrounding the town of Belvidere, Illinois, and the nearby Rockford metropolitan area.
our business editor simon jack has that story. archive: the newest cars in the world are l on show at earls court. you have to go back here to the 19505 to find a time when the uk made fewer cars than it did last year. the future is electric. with sales of new petrol and diesel cars banned here and in other european countries from 2030, the industry is at a crucial crossroads. uk vehicle production peaked in the early 19705 at nearly 2 million. it declined untiljapanese makers arrived in the 1980s, then enjoyed a sharp bounce back after the financial crisis of 2008. but since 2016, the year of the brexit vote, it has been in decline. now, 2022 saw production hit by some global issues and some uk specific ones. plant closures were a big factor, with honda shutting its swindon factory, and vauxhall s ellesmere port plant was closed, and it s converted from making astras to making electric vans. production was hit also by a global shortage of microchips and there were other supply chain d