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Why Detroit's Big Three are fighting to dominate the next generation of the car industry

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The potential U.S. auto workers strike is playing out as the transition to electric vehicles gains steam, leaving both automakers and workers looking at an uncertain future.

As EVs come to predominate, GM, Ford and Stellantis will have to build and revamp manufacturing plants, do more research and development, train new workers and source new raw materials, even as they continue to work on new car and truck models.

“A lot of the Big Three are opening EV plants in the Sun Belt, which are less pro-union states and where foreign companies have put their plants,” McLaughlin said. That can weaken the union, so it serves as a cost-saving strategy. Both of those factors are concerns for the union, because it could erode its membership or bargaining power over time. McLaughlin links that to a national trend of reduced union membership.

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