set to start tonight at midnight. roughly 49,000 members of general motors plants will stop working. last night, union allowed the collective bargaining agreement to expire. this is the first strike in a dozen years when gm workers were out for two days and comes after contracted negotiations broke down. wages, health care, temporary employees, job security and profit sharing. these were all some of the issues on the negotiating table. gm says it offered wages more than $7 billion u.s. investments as well as 5,400 jobs. now, it's called the union's decision to strike quote disappointing. joining me to talk about all of this. there have been months of negotiating. why do you think the sides couldn't come to some sort of deal? even though gm laid out a