Arlington, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – More than 49-thousand members of the United Auto Worker union went on strike early Monday as contract talks with General Motors broke down; that includes dozens on the picket lines outside the GM plant in Arlington.
Chanting, “What do we want, a contract … when do we want it, now,” some 45-hundred workers at the local plant struck just before midnight.
Workers are asking for a fair contract and say if they don’t get it they will keep operations shut down until they get one.
Talks, which broke down Saturday are expected to resume later this morning.
#NOW 49,000 United Auto Workers (union for General Motors factory/manufacturing employees) members went on strike at midnight after contract talks broke off yesterday. In Arlington, workers are picketing outside every gate of the GM Assembly Plant. More on @WBAP247NEWS @570KLIF pic.twitter.com/6DY5cjZWFL
— Scott Sidway (@ScottyWK) September 16, 2019
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