'If not now, when?': Here's why the UAW strike may have come at the perfect time for labor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Public support for labor unions stands near a half-century high.
52% : A strike by all autoworkers could cost the economy $5 billion after just 10 days, according to an analysis by the Anderson Economic Group, which looked at the estimated impact on workers, suppliers and the wider auto industry.
50% : Following the strike announcement last week, Biden urged the companies to share profits with workers and dispatched aides to Detroit to spur talks.
50% : "The polls show that people are more pro-union now than they've been in decades," said Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, a professor of labor and employment law at Indiana University in Bloomington.
40% : " The automakers contend they have already offered workers an "unprecedented economic package," to quote a GM release, including "historic wage increases" totaling 20%.

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