United Auto Workers go on strike: Live updates

Of the nearly 150,000 workers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis who are currently represented by the United Auto Workers union, fewer than 13,000 are now out on strike in this first round of labor actions.

It’s the first time the UAW has gone on strike against all three of these automakers at the same time, but it’s a very limited strike, for now. Strikers have walked out at one final assembly plant — a factory where complete vehicles are put together in the last step of the production process — at each of the automakers.

At Stellantis’s Toledo Assembly Complex, 5,800 workers who build the Jeep Wrangler SUV and Gladiator pickup have walked off the job. The Wrangler is an iconic model with roots going back to World War II. The Gladiator is basically a pickup version of the Wrangler.

GM’s Wentsville, Missouri, plant builds two closely related midsized pickups, the GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado. It also builds two closely related work vans, the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana. About 3,600 workers walked off the job there.

Ford builds the Ranger midsized pickup and the Bronco SUV at its Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, where 3,300 workers didn’t come to work. The Bronco is a direct competitor to the Jeep Wrangler while the Ranger competes against GM’s Canyon and Colorado as well as the Jeep Gladiator. The entire Wayne facility isn’t on strike, though. Body stamping facilities remain in production.