Strike Looms as UAW, Detroit Automakers Talks Come Down to the Wire
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:24.8 | Detroit auto makers and the United Auto Workers Union have yet to reach new contract deals |
| 0:29.8 | as a strike deadline looms in the next few hours. And shares of chip designer arm jump in its |
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| 0:52.3 | for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories |
| 0:57.9 | that moved the world today. There are just a few hours left for Detroit's auto makers to reach |
| 1:08.4 | new labor packs with the United Auto Workers Union, or risk a strike that could bring significant |
| 1:13.6 | disruptions to the auto industry. The labor contracts cover about 146,000 U.S. factory workers. |
| 1:20.1 | The union end the three auto makers, General Motors, Ford and Jeep Maker Stellantis, |
| 1:24.5 | are facing a deadline of 1159 PM Eastern time to reach a deal. Our auto industry reporter Nora |
| 1:30.8 | Eckert has been covering the negotiations. I can tell you things aren't looking good to reach a |
| 1:35.4 | deal. Bargaining is expected to continue later into the day, so we might see some changes. |
| 1:41.4 | But as of now, it's looking pretty likely that we'll see a strike at one, two, or three companies, |
| 1:47.3 | come 1159 tonight. This union is under a new leader, his name is Sean Fein, and he's taking a very |
| 1:53.6 | different approach to how they're going out on strike. So they're doing what's called a stand-up |
| 1:58.8 | strike, and it's a targeted approach where they pick one or a few factories at each automaker |
| 2:06.1 | and take those out on strike. So as opposed to doing a full walk out, like we saw at GM in 2019, |
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