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The UAW union plans to strike starting midnight on Thursday if negotiations fail with the top three automakers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. As the strike deadline set by the United Auto Workers union approaches, the union's president said that, for the first time in history, they are prepared to strike all three automakers at once. "We're going to be doing things differently this time around," the union's president, Shawn Fain, said during an update on social media Wednesday evening. "First of all, for the first time in our history, we may strike all three of the Big Three at once." "Our message to the companies was clear, if we don't have a fair contract by midnight on Thursday night, we will strike," he continued. Fain said that he will announce at 10 p.m. ET Thursday on Facebook Live which local unions are being asked to go on strike, calling it a "stand up strike." That plan, if it happens, will be unprecedented in...

An increasingly unpopular effort by a group of Ohio Republicans to make it harder to change the state constitution by direct voting faces a critical juncture this week COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An effort by a Republican faction in Ohio to make it harder to change the state constitution faces a critical juncture this week, with action needed in the politically fractured Ohio House where the undertaking has so far stalled. Wednesday is the last day to get the job done if lawmakers mean to put a related ballot measure before voters on Aug. 8, according to the timeline determined by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the state’s elections chief. However, scenarios could emerge among the plan's anxious GOP backers to blow past the cutoff without the plan's proponents relenting. The conflict comes amid similar Republican efforts to restrict direct democracy in Missouri, North Dakota and Mississippi, according to Fairness Project, a Washington-based group that pushes ballot measur...