(1 Oct 2019) With the United Auto Workers' strike against General Motors in its third week, workers are living on $250 per week in strike pay while the company is losing millions and its customers are being hit by repair parts shortages.
Both sides are being hurt as the dispute wears on with no immediate end in sight, and the union and company are hoping the strike doesn't last too much longer.
"I have high hopes that we'll be getting things done. I think both sides, of course, want to make sure we get this done," said Louis Rocha (ROH'-chuh), the president of UAW Local 5960, which represents workers at GM's Orion (OR'-ee-uhn) Assembly plant in suburban Detroit.
"As long as they're talking, right? There's talking, things are moving. It just gets scary if they was to stop. But they're not. So, hopefully, sooner than later," Rocha said.
But talks are moving slowly, and workers say they're willing to stay out longer to get a bigger portion of the company's more than $30 billion in profits for the past five years.
Tom Krisher, who covers the automotive industry for The Associated Press, says both sides are feeling the effects of the strike.
"The workers are going to be hurting a little bit. The company also, though, is hurting, or at least starting to," Krisher said. "The biggest area where that's showing up is parts at dealers."
A Chevrolet dealership not too far from Orion Assembly, Krisher says, is "having trouble with pretty much across the board all parts except for maintenance items like filters and things like that."
The strike by about 49,000 workers has halted production at more than 30 GM factories nationwide. It began in mid-September.

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