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The United Auto Workers strike has expanded again with roughly 34,000 American auto workers now striking across the United States while few Americans, a poll finds, back General Motors , Ford, and Stellantis in the conflict.UAW members at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville walked off the job and joined 25,300 other UAW members who have been on strike for nearly a month now.
“The decision by the UAW to call a strike at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant is grossly irresponsible but unsurprising given the union leadership’s stated strategy of keeping the Detroit 3 wounded for months through ‘reputational damage’ and ‘industrial chaos,'” Ford executives said. A factory worker holds a picket sign outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on October 12, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Meanwhile, recent polls show Americans are increasingly on the side of UAW members against the Big Three automakers. In an Associated Press/NORC Poll conducted October 5 through October 9, fewer thanof American adults said they side with the automakers in the labor dispute, while 36 percent back the UAW members.
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