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The walkout led by United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain at three General Motors Co. , Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV factories is no ordinary labor-versus-industry clash.
Fain has taken on all three companies employing 146,000 union members at once.
He’s inflicting significant damage by disrupting truck and sport utility vehicle output, while taking pains not to burn through strike fund.
Shawn Fain is the first UAW president to be directly elected by the membership.
Fain bucked convention by not holding handshake ceremonies usually attended by the CEOs and union leadership to kick off contract negotiations.
Attempts by management to get a read on Fain privately didn’t go well.
GM ’s ever-composed CEO Mary Barra was, in her words, “extremely disappointed and frustrated” by the strike.
The UAW walked off the job at three factories in Detroit , Ohio and Missouri .
Ford and GM have announced layoffs of non-striking workers, citing spillover effects of the walkouts.
A month-long localized strike would reduce payroll by 13,000 .
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