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The big three automakers are hit with strikes as labor talks collapse.

These Detroit companies are half of the auto industry in the US, so the longer this goes on,

the deeper it goes, the more plants are involved. The economic impact starts to take its toll.

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I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News.

The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We begin in Detroit, where the United Auto Workers Union has gone on strike at all three major

car companies. 12,700 workers hit the picket line shortly after midnight when UAW officials

failed to clinch new labor deals with General Motors, Ford, and Jeep Maker Stellantis.

General auto reporter Mike Collias is in Michigan this morning. He joins me now with the very

latest workers at this point have now walked out from three factories in Detroit, Toledo, and Kansas

City. What do we know so far about this strike? Yeah, it's an unusual strike. The union's calling

it unprecedented, and so strikes across all three companies, GM, Ford, and Stellantis.

But it's only one plant each. They're relatively big plants. They're not the most crucial plants

for any of the companies. The Stellantis one with Jeep is pretty big, because that's their top

seller in the US. Basically, what the union's strategy is here is we're going to start with these

three plants. 12,13,000 workers, which is a lot, but four years ago, the big GM strike was over

40,000 workers. But what the union is banking on is, okay, listen, if talks aren't proceeding,

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