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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Isabel Funk

Chicago Ford plant workers hit the picket line as UAW strike spreads

UAW Local 551 Chairman Alan “Coby” Millender leads the chanting as Lincoln Aviator SUVs pass by in the background during a Friday rally outside Ford’s South Deering assembly plant. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Felicia Greene, 56, was fist bumping her coworkers Friday while saying, “We are one!” and joining in chants called out on a bullhorn outside of Ford’s South Side assembly plant.

Greene and her colleagues were joining the United Auto Workers’ expanded strike action that started at 11 a.m. Union President Shawn Fain made the announcement about the strike on Facebook Live, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Chicago and at a General Motors plant near Lansing, Michigan.

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