Striking isn’t easy — on anyone.
The automakers targeted by the UAW strike face mounting product and profit losses. The suppliers to those companies face layoffs with no plant production, and consumers might have to wait for the car they want or pay higher prices.
And the workers, whether on the picket lines or working without a contract, face uncertainty and hardship, fighting to get back what they say they lost when auto manufacturers faced insolvency in 2007. It was then when the union gave up a pension, cost-of-living adjustment, some wages and other concessions.
And as the strike approaches its first full week, with contract negotiations between the UAW and Detroit Three still in flux, workers are speaking out about the unfair treatment they say they receive, the poor working conditions and contracts that are not fair and transparent, and most of all, they say, the nail-biting uncertainty that a strike portends for their families, their futures and their colleagues.
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