I'm Samantha Cheris, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, September 15th.

Here are today's headlines.

The United Auto Workers Union is officially on strike against Ford, General Motors and

CNN reports that the workers walked out of three plants, one from each of the big three automakers,

in Missouri, Michigan, and Ohio.

Less than 13,000 of the union's 145,000 members walked off the job, CNN also reported.

The UAW Union, according to the Associated Press, is seeking big raises and better benefits from GM, Ford and

Stalinists, and they want to get back in sessions that the workers made years ago, when the companies were in financial trouble.

President Joe Biden weighed in on the strike earlier today.

Let's take a listen to some of his comments via NBC News' YouTube.

Let's be clear, no one wants a strike.

Say it again, no one wants a strike, but I respect workers right to use their options under the collective bargaining system.

And I understand the workers' frustration.

Over generations, auto workers sacrificed so much to keep the industry alive and strong, especially the economic crisis and the pandemic.

Workers deserve a fair share of the benefits they helped create for an enterprise.

I do appreciate that the parties that I'm working around the clock, when I first call them at the very first day of their negotiation,

I said, please stay at the table as long as you can to try to work this out.

And they've been around the clock and the companies have made some significant offers.

But I believe this should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW.

Let's say it again, record corporate profits, which they have, should be shared by record contracts for the UAW.

And just as we're building an economy of the future, we need labor agreements for the future.

It's my hope that the parties can return to the negotiation table to forge a win-win agreement.

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