Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Talks resume today as United Auto Workers Union Strike against GM, Ford and Stellantis,

parent company of Chrysler and Jeep, continues for a second day.

This is some 13,000 workers struck.

Sticking points are pay, work hours, and the union wants a four-day work week, along

with electric vehicles, something the Biden administration is pushing hard on all automakers

to pursue.

NPR's Ron Elving has more.

The UAW would like Joe Biden to back off on the electric vehicles a bit,

and yet they are a big part of Biden's climate change agenda.

One of the real changes and one of the real contributions to cleaner air,

the auto companies would also like to be competing in that market too.

It's the union that worries that this new generation of vehicles will lead auto companies

to employ fewer of their workers, or at least fewer workers in plans or states that are

organized by the UAW.

NPR's Ron Elving, meanwhile, the ripple effects of the strike are already happening,

Ford sent 600 workers in Michigan, rather,

home and GM says 2,000 workers at a Kansas plant will be out of work next week.

The Biden administration has resumed talks with Chinese-owned video app TikTok.

As NPR's Bobby Allen reports,

White House officials are trying to resolve national security concerns involving the

app's Beijing-based parent company.

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