For the first time in its 88-year history, the UAW is on strike at all three of the Detroit companies at once.
"We have a bigger point to make," Wegener said, noting the strike sends a larger message about inequality across the industry.
In fact, the United Auto Workers-led strike at the Detroit 3 is shaping up to have an outsized effect on the entire automotive industry.
"If the UAW does dig their heels in and does well here, it's highly likely that they will get other auto workers who are not UAW auto workers to be very interested," Ambrose Conroy, CEO of consultancy Seraph, said.
Even the branding of the strike, which Fain has called the "Stand Up" strike, is a play on the UAW's highly influential 1937 sit-down strike at GM.
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