in the Midwest amid a contract dispute over pay, pensions and work hours at the three Detroit automakers.
The workers’ four-year contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis — which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram — expired at midnight Thursday, with the two sides far apart. — Roughly 12,700 workers at plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio halted work Friday. The tactic is a departure from the union’s usual strategy of staging an all-out strike against a single automaker and is intended to give the UAW negotiators leverage.
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