About 13,000 U.S. auto workers went on strike Friday after the divide between union demands and Detroit’s big three automakers couldn’t be solved. The Associated Press reports members of the United Auto Workers union began picketing at a GM assembly plant in Missouri; a Ford factory in Michigan near Detroit; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Ohio. WRCR market analyst Ken Mahoney of Mahoney Asset Management in Chestnut Ridge says other strikes or the threats of strikes loom large in many industries…
The UAW strike marked the first time in the union’s 88-year history that it walked out on all three companies at the same time. Meanwhile, CNBC says over 60,000 health-care workers in California, Oregon and Washington voted to authorize strikes against Kaiser Permanente if they don’t reach an agreement by the end of the month. KP is one of the largest nonprofit health plans in the nation with 39 hospitals and nearly 13 million members. And despite the Hollywood writer’s strike, comedian Bill Maher announced yesterday he’s “soon” going to bring back his HBO show, “Real Time,” without writers or writing. In a post yesterday on Twitter, Maher admitted the show won’t be as good without its writers, and he sympathized with the writers’ cause, but he said much of the rest of his staff is “struggling mightily” by not being able to work.