UAW President Shawn Fain announced that union workers at both the Ford assembly plant in Chicago and the Lansing Delta Township assembly plant "stood up" and began striking around noon just today.
This new development now totals the amount of union employees on strike to around 7,000, says Fain.
The United Auto Workers strikes against Detroit's big three automakers which has spread to dozens of parts distribution centers across the city, now including the one in Lansing, is expected to grow even more soon.
The union has vowed to hit automakers harder if they do not concede to "substantially improved contract offers", as part of a simultaneous labor campaign against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the latter of which, has been the only automaker so far that UAW has had successful negotiations with, and thus spared from a third round of strikes.