Autoworkers' Demands and Union Negotiations

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This chapter discusses the demands of autoworkers for higher wages, improved benefits, and the elimination of the tier system. It explores the background of the negotiations, the union's strategy in the ongoing strike, and the possibility of different outcomes with different automakers.

The United Auto Workers union is on strike at three different factories. We ask the Wall Street Journal's Nora Eckert what the union workers want, and management professor Marick Masters explains why the Detroit Big Three are reluctant to give it to them.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Miles Bryan, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Amanda Lewellyn with help from Hady Mawajdeh and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Patrick Boyd and hosted by Noel King.

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