DETROIT – This edition of Flashpoint opens with a region that has been nothing but a flashpoint for seemingly ever. How many times over the last few decades have we been horrified by scenes from that part of the world? It’s not easy to shock us when it comes to the hatred that Arabs and Israelis have honed to such a bloody edge. But this has been incomprehensible, both for what has happened, and in trying to determine what kind of ending this awful story can possible have. We’ll talk...

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Friday that the union’s auto strike is “entering a new phase” that “demands a new approach” as the unprecedented simultaneous action against all three Detroit automakers enters its second month. Fain said Friday the union isn’t immediately launching any additional walkouts against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Stellantis NV in its strike against selected plants, adding that the union is changing its strategy and can send workers out at any time. But he warned GM and Stellantis that, absent progress at...

The United Auto Workers' strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, has now entered a "new phase" as it hits the one-month point, the union's top leader said Friday. During his weekly address to members, UAW President Shawn Fain did not call for strikes at any additional plants, but said further walkouts could come at any time moving forward, not just on Fridays as they had in the first few weeks of the strike. The union already demonstrated the adjustment in its strategy earlier in the week, when it ordered...

WAYNE, Mich. (WXYZ) — The United Auto Worker's strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers is now in week five. Today, UAW president Shawn Fain announced he's changing his strike strategy. He also called for solidarity from the community. Fain said the union would be taking a more aggressive and unpredictable approach and not waiting until Friday to announce strike expansions. "They thought they figured out the so-called rules of the game, so we changed the rules," Fain said during his Facebook Live address. Sandy Kirklin, a Ford employee for over...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - United Auto Workers (UAW) union President Shawn Fain announced Friday that this would be his last scheduled Facebook announcement as the UAW is changing its strategy. Workers on the picket line in Delta Township are excited Fain is taking on a new strategy, saying it’s important to keep the Big Three on their toes when it comes to plants stopping production. Previous story: ‘Be ready to stand up’: UAW President Fain says strike will not expand, union changes strike strategy “I think he’s being unpredictable like...

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Friday that the labor union would not expand its strike against the Big Three automakers this week. However, he said on social media that he is prepared to announce more surprise strikes at any moment. On Wednesday, UAW called a surprise strike of 8,700 workers at a major Ford truck assembly plant in Louisville, Kentucky. “Today we’re not announcing an expansion of our strike, but we are prepared, at any time, to call on more locals to stand up and walk out,” Mr....

The United Auto Workers is shifting gears in its month-long fight to win pay increases and improved benefits from Detroit’s Big 3 automakers. UAW President Shawn Fain told 50,000 viewers on Facebook Live Friday that the union isn’t waiting until Fridays anymore to announce new targets for its so-called “Stand Up Strike” designed to keep the automakers guessing. “The companies started to wait till Friday to make substantial progress in bargaining,” Fain said. “We’ve been teaching them how to bargain with the threat of a strike, and we can get...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Kentucky Ford plant has now joined the resistance, 27 days into the United Auto Workers strike. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday night, almost 9,000 workers walked off the job at the Louisville plant, and within an hour, the machines shut down. The Louisville Ford plant is known to be the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world, generating around $25 billion a year. As lucrative as the plant is, Kentucky Ford workers aren’t happy. Kenneth Suschank, on strike at the Louisville plant, said,...

The United Auto Workers (UAW) unexpectedly walked off the job Wednesday evening at the largest Ford plant in an escalation of its strike against major automakers. Around 8,700 UAW members walked off the job at 6:30 p.m. ET at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville yesterday in a previously unannounced move, completely shutting down the plant, according to an announcement from the UAW. The new strike location comes as UAW workers are already striking at 43 other plants at the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis —...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - UAW President Shawn Fain said after a meeting with Ford, the automaker offered the same package they proposed two weeks ago, which led to his decision to call on the Louisville Truck plant to strike. With the 8,700 workers from that plant alone joining the strike now around 33,700 total union members are on a picket line. In a statement from Ford, they called the latest strike “Grossly Irresponsible”. Steven Melnyk a supply chain management professor at Michigan State University said the union is doing a...