Starting small would let UAW stretch its strike fund

Estimates have projected that the union’s $825 million fund, designed to pay eligible workers $500 every week whereas picketing, would help as much as an 11-week strike of its 146,000 members in any respect three automakers.

By focusing on only one plant at every of the Big Three at first, the UAW might doubtlessly make that cash go additional.

It would want to distribute strike pay to only the 12,700 workers on the three chosen websites initially.