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US autoworkers may wage a historic strike against Detroit’s 3 biggest automakers – with wages at EV battery plants a key roadblock to agreement

  • Written by Marick Masters, Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
imageUAW President Shawn Fain speaks with General Motors workers on July 12, 2023, in Detroit.Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture U.S.-made vehicles, kicked off in mid-July 2023 the labor negotiations it undergoes every four years with the three main unionized...

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