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WAYNE, Mich. (WXYZ) — At midnight Friday, workers at the Ford Assembly plant in Wayne began walking off the job as a part of the United Auto Workers "Stand up Strike". This after the UAW and Detroit's Big 3 failed to strike a deal before their Thursday night deadline on wages and benefits for nearly 150,000 autoworkers at Ford, GM and Stellantis. "Nobody should have to work next to somebody

It's been 22 years, but their names, their sacrifice and their stories still stand at a Union City memorial and in our hearts. “I went to New York a month after it happened, I went to Manhattan, I saw the devastation,” said David Baltazar of Union City. “I could still smell smoke.” He and others walked along the names of the 40 passengers on Flight 93 on Monday. Those heroes were headed for

The deadline is Thursday at 11:59 p.m. More than 100,000 members of the United Auto Workers, the biggest auto union in America, will find out whether they’ve won anything close to the four-year contract with a 46% wage bump they’ve been demanding, or whether they will be launching a historic strike. Detroit’s Big Three automakers—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, the successor to Chrysler—

Aug. 1: The UAW presents demands to Stellantis, says the union is seeking ambitious benefit increases from the Detroit 3, including double-digit pay rises and defined-benefit pensions for all workers. Aug. 3: The union presents contract demands to Ford Motor Co. Aug. 8: Fain angrily tosses contract proposals from Stellantis in a trash can, citing numerous concessions that the Chrysler parent