The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is on strike against the Big Three automakers, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, and is demanding better wages, benefits, and job security. Here are some of the specific demands made by the UAW:

• Pay increases: The UAW is asking for a 36% pay increase across a four-year contract.
• Cost-of-living adjustments: The UAW wants the companies to reinstate annual cost-of-living adjustments to wages that UAW workers lost in 2009.
• Pensions: The UAW wants the companies to restore defined-benefit pensions that workers previously received.
• Healthcare: The UAW is asking for the companies to pay all the healthcare costs for retirees and to provide health care for all retired UAW members.
• Job security: The UAW wants to limit the use of temporary workers and to implement a "working family protection program" that pays UAW to do community service work if the companies shut down a facility.

The UAW is also asking for a four-day workweek with overtime pay beyond 32 hours, union representation at new electric battery plants, and the right to strike over plant closures and some form of compensation in the event of a shutdown of the plant. The automakers have countered with offers that fall short of the UAWs demands, and the two sides remain far apart in their negotiations.