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Camila Domonoske

Why this fight is so personal for the UAW workers on strike

Ford workers meet with United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., on July 12, 2023. The UAW is fighting hard to regain the things they gave up before and during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Eric Mullins, a third-generation UAW worker picketing outside the massive Michigan Assembly Plant near Detroit, wasn't itching to strike. Some of his colleagues were sleepless with excitement the night before the strike began, eager to make history. Not Mullins; he would much rather be working.

But he only needed to glance a few feet to the side for a reminder of why he's as determined as anybody to see this strike through.

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