UAW threatens expanded strikes if there is no progress on contract with automakers by noon Friday

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : GM said Monday that 2,000 UAW-represented workers at an assembly plant in Kansas City are "expected to be idled as soon as early this week" because of a shortage of supplies from a GM plant near St. Louis, where workers walked off the job Friday.
56% : Fain said on NPR that there is "a long way to go," and if significant progress is not made, "then we will escalate action.
52% : Strikes by Hollywood writers and actors, by workers at about 150 Starbucks locations and walkouts that were narrowly averted at United Parcel Service and West Coast ports -- has been driven by a strong labor market and high demand for workers as well as living costs that have risen rapidly.
49% : Biden has backed the UAW in brief public comments, saying that the automakers have not fairly shared their record profits with workers.

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