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We report from the picket lines of the United Auto Workers Strike.

One worker I talked to who looks in the paint shop here at the Winterville plant said,

you know, it always deals like with GM. There's three hands ahead of us in a game of poker,

but this time we're the ones who are one hand ahead.

And what a prolonged walkout could mean for the economy and consumers.

Plus, how a multi-billion dollar defense deal between the US and Saudi Arabia fell apart.

It's Friday, September 15th. I'm Ann Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world

today.

Members of the United Auto Workers Union hit the picket lines shortly after midnight,

striking at all three major Detroit car companies at once for the first time ever.

As we reported on this morning's show, UAW officials initiated the walkout

after failing to reach new labor deals with General Motors, Ford Motor and Jeep Maker Stellantis

for some 146,000 US factory workers. And today, thousands of workers are striking at Ford's

Bronco plant in Detroit, a Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, and a GM pickup plant in Missouri.

That's where our reporter Ben Kessling is. He joins me now from that GM plant in Wenzville, Missouri.

Ben, what's been happening where you are?

Well, Wenzville, Missouri, has one of the larger GM plants in the country.

And coming into Wenzville, every gate of the plant had strikers wearing, you know,

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