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Sep 2023
24m 43s

What's at stake in a historic autoworker...

THE WASHINGTON POST
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First it was Hollywood, and now another big union strike is underway. For the first time ever, thousands of United Auto Workers members are simultaneously striking against Detroit’s Big Three auto companies. 
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