Around 13,000 workers at three assembly plants of General Motors (GM), Ford and Stellantis in the United States went on strike early Friday morning. due to lack of consensus on a new collective bargaining agreement.
It is the first time that the factories of the Big Three of Detroit, as the three companies in the automobile industry are known, have gone on strike simultaneously.
The president of the United Auto Workers union, Shawn Fein, announced at 11 p.m. this Thursday (3 a.m. this Friday in Lisbon) that the workers at the GM assembly plant in Wentzville, in the state of Missouri, of the Stellantis factory in Toledo, Ohio, and Ford’s plant in Wayne, Michigan, would be the first to go on strike.
Source: Observadora
