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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Tom Perkins in Wayne, Michigan

‘We build those cars’: US workers on Ford picket line demand a fair share

Striking United Auto Workers walk the picket line outside the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Friday.
Striking United Auto Workers walk the picket line outside the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Friday. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

Under blue skies in Wayne, Michigan, a half-hour outside Detroit, the mood was festive but defiant as hundreds of autoworkers settled in for the first weekend of picketing at the entrances to Ford’s Michigan assembly plant.

Ford’s workers were among the first to go out in a series of targeted strikes that marked the beginning of the largest industrial action taken by US car workers in over a decade.

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