Nearly 50,000 UAW workers go on strike against GM, America’s biggest auto maker

(Source: CNN Business, September 16, 2019)

NEW YORK — The United Auto Workers union went out on strike against General Motors Sunday night, the first work stoppage in the US auto industry in 12 years. The union’s nearly 50,000 hourly fulltime and temporary workers walked out at 31 GM factories and 21 other facilities, spread across nine states, mostly in the center of the country. It’s the largest strike by any union against any business since the last strike at GM in 2007.

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Monday, September 16, 2019