The American Prospect
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At midnight , the United Auto Workers began targeted work stoppages at plants across the United States .
The UAW plans to selectively picket production sites of Ford , Stellantis , and GM , gradually escalating pressure.
A ten-day strike could reduce U.S. GDP by as much as $5.6 billion , with a devastating impact on Michigan .
The UAW calls that a “legal fiction,” but it is a fiction that still constrains how much the union can ask on behalf of EV workers.
It cannot seek commitments that JV battery plants will be unionized in exchange for other items in the master agreement.
But there’s precedent for folding JV workers into UAW master agreements.
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